SpaceX is a company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk who is the founder of Tesla. The SpaceX company mainly focuses on designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The purpose Elon Musk establish this company is to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. Sounds futuristic, isn’t it?
Last week, SpaceX successfully launches 60 Starlink satellites into the orbit around the earth. According to TheVerge, these satellites will be orbiting around the earth to provide seamless internet connectivity around the earth. SpaceX target to send one million Starlink satellites in the coming years to the orbit. In case you would like to watch the launch of the SpaceX Starlink mission. Watch it below.
Two days ago, an Astronomer from the Netherlands, Dr. Marco Longbroek shot the video of the fleet of Starlink satellites. He calculated where the satellites will be orbiting and recorded the video of it. If you watch the video it’s totally amazing. You can see a train of white dots moving. In his blog, he says this occurrence will happen for two to three times each night and at the end, it will spread into different directions.
In conclusion, after the success of launching these satellites, SpaceX will be launching almost 12,000 satellites to the orbit in the coming years. If everything goes well as expected, one day we can get continuous Internet connectivity all over the world including villages too.
It’s time for China to take revenge against the United States. All of Apple products are manufacturing in China. This includes iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Apple Watch are the main product which produces by China. If you notice in all of the Apple products. It says “Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.”. After the US government bans Chinese tech company from doing business with US companies, now China could make its move too by banning Apple products in China.
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According to Goldman Sachs analyst, Rod Hall says Apple could lose more than 30% of its profit if China bans Apple. This was written by him to his clients. If the trade war between China and the United States continues, the American tech giant income might fall more than $15 billion annually.
Apple’s main manufacturer Foxconn is based in Shenzen, China. According to Hall, if China bans Apple, immediately all its productions has to stop immediately. Surely Apple won’t be able to move its manufacturing plant outside of China in a very short notice. Before this itself, Apple has already started to move its iPhone production such as the iPhone XR to India. This is because China increases its tariffs on all US imports. Most probably, by next month Apple will start its iPad and MacBook production in Indonesia too.
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However, if China bans Apple, its local economy will be terribly affected. For example, most of the Foxconn workers could lose their jobs after China bans Apple. At this moment, the US government has given a temporary license for Huawei to continue doing business with China for 90 days. Once the license is expired Huawei has to plan its contingency plan.
In conclusion, China should think twice before banning Apple in China. If the trade war between this two countries continues, we can start to expect a drop in the global economy.
For this past two weeks, the topic which a lot of you might be searching on Google is probably “Huawei ban” and also the “Entity List”. During the lunch break, we saw many of the people are talking about this topic. The trade war between the US and China will prolong for a longer period than we expect. Today, we would like to share you all about these two topics.
What is “Entity List”?
According to the US Department of Commerce, the Entity List has a list of foreign companies which could pose a national threat to the United States. This includes tech companies, governments officials and also individuals. This list has over 270-pages with the list of companies from various companies such as China, Iran, Russia, and the UK.
Why Huawei is added into the Entity List?
On 15th May, Trump’s administration signs an order to add the Chinese tech company, Huawei into its Entity List. This is because the Department of Commerce suspects Huawei activities in the US could be a national threat to the United States.
Once a company or individual name is added to this list, they are not allowed to continue any kind of business with the US companies. This list has causes most of the tech companies in the US to stop its business with Huawei. According to the US Department of Commerce, the US companies can continue doing their business with Huawei. However, a license needed to be applied to the Bureau of Industry and Security.
Does the ban on Huawei affects Huawei?
Many of us know that Huawei smartphone is one of the top most used smartphone in the world. Now the US government has banned Huawei from doing business with US tech companies, this has really affected Huawei business tremendously.
The first company to pull the plug out was Google. Google blocks all its access to Huawei. This includes the Android license and Google’s proprietary applications. This means Huawei’s future smartphones will not be able to use the Google Android operating system. Huawei can only use the open-source Android only which does not has Google applications such as Gmail, YouTube and the worst is Google Play Store. Without Google Play Store and Android the whole smartphone will be useless to use.
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Other than that, Huawei is also affected by this ban when the US chipmakers such as Intel and Qualcomm suspend its partnership with Huawei. Most of the Huawei devices are powered by Intel and Qualcomm chipsets. Huawei has the only option to create its own chips without these tech companies. The latest update we receive was ARM has also suspended its partnership with Huawei too. Huawei creates its own Kirin processor. That’s the main processor which is being used inside the Huawei P30 Pro and the upcoming Huawei Mate X. However, the technology behind it is from ARM.
Does your current Huawei device is affected by this restriction?
Existing Huawei devices won’t be affected by this restriction. According to a statement from Google spokesperson:
Google Play and the security protections from Google Play Protect will continue to function on existing Huawei devices
According to a detikINET, Apple could possibly move the production of iPad and MacBook from China to Indonesia soon. During an interview the CEO of PT Sat Nusapersada, Abidin Hasibuan says his company will be collaborating with Pegatron. It is a Taiwanese company which manufacturers Apple products such as the MacBook and iPad.
At this moment, he cites they will start to manufacture a laptop and a tablet. Since it is still confidential, he did not mention the brand of it. However, he confirms the manufacturing will begin somewhere around June. The interesting part is he reveals it is an American brand where they will be supplying the laptop and tablet to the United States. By doing the math, we can confirm the American brand is Apple.
The main reason, Apple is moving its manufacturing plant to Indonesia due to the China trade war with the United States. Since the United States government bans Chinese tech company Huawei, there is a possibility for China to take revenge on Apple by banning Apple products in China. At the same time, the labor cost over at Indonesia is way cheaper than in China. This could be one of the reason too.
In conclusion, nothing can be confirmed until we receive an official press statement from Apple. Can we expect Apple to manufacture its product in Malaysia too?
Back on October 2018, Huawei launches its Mate 20 series smartphone by including a new generation expansion storage. Instead of microSD card, Huawei launches the NM Card. Now, we can see that Huawei might not be able to include microSD card slots into their devices. This means the only option Huawei has is the NM Card.
The main reason for this removal is the SD Association has removed Huawei from its list of members companies. The SD Association is established to set a standard for memory cards. This association is also responsible to promote newer SD card technologies. Since Huawei is officially out of this association, it won’t be able to produce any of their smartphones with SD card slot.
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If you notice its other smartphones such as the Huawei P30 Pro, it is using the microSD card slot for expandable storage. Most of its affordable smartphones come with the microSD card slot. We are suspecting the whole reason the SD Association removes Huawei could possibly due to the ban on Huawei.
In conclusion, this will really affect Huawei’s affordable smartphone market. Huawei will either include its NM Card technology or its next-generation smartphone will only have the internal storage. As for now, Huawei has not provided its official statement regarding this removal.
The US government gives a 90 days license for Huawei to continue its business with US tech companies. Google did say it will continue providing technical supports to Huawei. However, today seems like Google has already removed two of Huawei devices from Android official website.
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Previously, in the official website of Android, there is a section which shows the most popular Android devices. Although the Huawei Mate X is not officially launched yet, Google adds both the Huawei P30 Pro and Huawei Mate X into this section. If you notice it today, both Huawei devices are missing from the 5G phones section.
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In conclusion, despite Google agrees to provide technical support, it has removed the most popular smartphone from the Android.com website. Existing Huawei users wouldn’t have to worry about this because Google promises will allow all its users to use its applications such as YouTube and Google Play Store. We have to hope both this tech giant will come up with their own contingency plan else Huawei will be launching its own operating system soon.
Amazon is the world’s second company to reach a $1,000,000,000,000 valuation after Apple. Amazon constantly launches new products such as Amazon Echo and Amazon Dash. With the Amazon Alexa, Amazon has already known everything about a specific user. Now, Amazon is working on a new tracking wearable which can tracks a user’s emotions too.
How it works is, Amazon Alexa will be able to determine the user’s mood and responds back according to their feeling. For example, if a person feels sad, Amazon will tracks the person’s mood and then reply in a soft manner. Not only that, there are more other emotions such as happiness, anger, and boredom. Amazon has already patented it to let Alexa do the replying based on the user emotion.
According to Bloomberg, the emotion-tracking wearable device is a product of Alexa and Lab126 hardware team. As for now, Amazon research teams are testing this product internally with the code name “Dylan”. There is a possibility this product could be realized soon. This is because, Amazon’s’ Echo Buttons is one of Amazon experiment within its hardware team. There are some experimental products which did not pass the internal trial phase.
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In conclusion, if you watch the movie Back to the Future, you might realize how technology has evolved within us. We might not expect an emotional tracker during those days. Now, it will become a reality where everyone will start to get one of those wearable devices soon.
Last week Huawei faces the worst time ever since the US government blocks Huawei from doing business with the US tech companies. Later, the US government provides a temporary license for Huawei to continue doing their business with US tech companies. Following this tragedy, Huawei finally comes up with its own contingency plan. Huawei will be launching its own operating system either end of this year or first quarter of 2020.
According to CNBC, this news is confirmed by Huawei’s head of consumer division. Surprisingly, Microsoft has also removed Huawei’s notebook from its product page. This means Huawei will be launching two operating systems for its devices which is for the smartphones and its notebooks. On Thursday, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei told that it has to prepare for plan B if plan A fails. Developing their own operating system is plan B now.
Imagine using Huawei’s phone without Android, that could be really devastating because all users download their favorite applications from the Google Play Store. According to its CEO, Huawei has its own app store which is known as the App Gallery. However, the population of users who uses the Google Play Store is higher, so Huawei has to think of a way to tackle this issue.
Issues Huawei has to face before creating their own operating system
User Experience
First of all, Huawei needs to focus on the user experience of the operating system. Its operating system has to match with Google Androids and Microsoft Windows. Huawei need to develop various kinds of applications which gives a seamless user experience to its consumers.
Security
The most important key point here is having a secure operating system. None of the consumers will be using Huawei’s operating system, if it is not secure. This includes user’s privacy and security. All the applications need to involve scanning and certification before rolling out to its operating system. According to Neil Shah, who is a research director, at Counterpoint Research says doing this huge task will be really challenging and requires tons of resources.
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The other issue is Huawei’s being suspended to use ARM technology. After ARM halts its partnership with Huawei, Huawei is facing issues to secure the critical components which are the SoC. Although Huawei creates its own Kirin 980 processors, the technology behind is the ARM technology. According to Shah, the operating system could be useless if Huawei can’t use the ARM processor.
In conclusion, if the US government insist to continue to block Huawei permanently, then we can expect Huawei’s own operating system to launch by end of this year or beginning of next year. Anyhow, we will keep our readers updated on it.
Everywhere you go the only thing people talk about is all about Huawei. Honestly, Huawei is really having a hard time now. After the US government adds Huawei into its blacklist, companies such as Google, Intel and Qualcomm have stopped all its supplies to Huawei. Even Microsoft has removed Huawei’s notebook from its page. Now, ARM is also suspending its partnership and all its deals with Huawei.
According to BBC, ARM instructs all its employees to cut all its current relationship with Huawei via a memo. This memo is circulated within its company. This includes Huawei’s sister company HONOR too. HONOR just launches its new series of smartphone, HONOR 20 and HONOR 20 Pro a week ago. Now with this issue, HONOR will be affected too.
Although Huawei builds its own SoC without the partnership of ARM, Huawei could not have launched the Kirin processor. If you take a look, most of the Huawei devices is using ARM’s technology as part of Kirin SoC. Other than that, Infineon also has stopped all its relationship with Huawei after Huawei is ban from doing business in the US.
In conclusion, its CEO says that the ban does not affect badly as we think. Huawei could have come up with their own contingency plan? If not, this is going to be a huge disaster for Huawei.
We all know, that the United States government has blocked all access for Huawei to continue doing business with US tech companies. After that, the US government provides Huawei a temporary license which allows the Chinese tech giant to continue business with US tech companies for 90 days. Now Google, has given its reply in a statement regarding this issue.
Below is the statement from the Google spokesperson:
Keeping phones up to date and secure is in everyone’s best interests and this temporary license allows us to continue to provide software updates and security patches to existing models for the next 90 days.
Google will only deliver all its security updates to Huawei until the end of 90 days period. After the 90th day, Huawei will not be able to receive any kind of updates from Google. This situation can be overturned only if the US government removes Huawei from the Entity List. The good news is all the existing Huawei users will be able to access to all Google services without any issue.
In conclusion, this is the temporary solution Huawei has until it figures out its own contingency plan. Can we expect Huawei’s own operating system anytime soon?
