The Dam Breaks....
2019 will go down in history as the year that the Chinese stopped being primarily outsourcers and started being major players in their own right, leading with both technology and price/performance. They probably got pushed into this -- their culture may prefer to be non-confrontational but the attacks on first ZTE and then Huawei suggest that there's nothing to be gained from this so they might as well just go pedal to the metal competitive.
The scary bit (from our perspective) is that this isn't just happening with phones and mobile infrastructure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
