It's got me flummoxed!

MOST of which are in China . . .

"Deemed a security threat as a potential surveillance “backdoor” for China’s government, Huawei has been banned in the United States. As a result, Google has revoked Huawei’s Android license, and U.S. chipmakers Intel, Qualcomm and ARM have ceased business with Huawei."

Westerners using Huawei apps strikes me as worse than foolish. ymmv

@FearlessFly Apart from Samsung what smartphones are not made in China?
Your American paranoia is displaying its awesome insecurity.

@FrayedBear [chinanever.com]

It is not paranoia if they are REALLY out to get you

(I don't/won't have a smartphone)

@FearlessFly sure that it isn't projection by a nation enjoined in a folies?

@FrayedBear . . . which nation(s) AREN"T "enjoined in a folies?"

Yes.

“Google’s Premier Device Program was not publicly known, and was not known to Epic, before Google recently began producing relevant documents in this litigation,” Epic’s lawyers wrote in the complaint. “Google has sought to conceal its most restrictive anticompetitive conduct by, among other things, including in the agreements themselves a provision restricting signatories from making ‘any public statement regarding [the] Agreement without the other party’s prior written approval.’”

But isn't this what America has done to Julian Assange, Venezuela, N. Korea, Iran. . .?

@FrayedBear apples, oranges