Hopefully all of this causes a push away from closed standards and branding. Its a shame how things like android, bluetooth and wifi while seemingly open are still very limited with proprietary components and branding.

what surprises me the most here is how a trade group for setting global standards can be under control of a single country.

this in itself is a problem that needs to be fixed.

Is it legal if they just put a SD card like slot in the position where the SD card usually is with a SD card compatible driver, and just avoid writing SD card in the description and case of the computer?

How long until Chinese device makers just abandon SD cards en masse and form a new standard? Unlike, say, x86 or Windows, the capabilities of SD are not hard to replicate.

I wonder if they could simply fork SD cards and make something compatible but without the branding or proprietary parts.

I wonder how many "counterfeit" SD cards are on the market already, especially in places like china?

Ebay is filled with ultra cheap high capacity sd cards that are either fake or quality control rejects. These are still using the SD card branding though. It would be nice to see a high quality retailer of "SD cards" selling them under some generic name and then with the text "SD compatible"

Also, the better comms modes. Major sad day for them.

Best phone I have ever owned.

Sad day for you too. This is a mess!

why is engadget redirecting to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId= ?

This is a frustratingly common problem, the answer is crappy advertise javascript. I have reported this problem numerous times to various sites such as anandtech, etc. Most commonly for me it only happens on iPhone and redirects to some kind of you won an iPhone ad.

I had some luck reporting this to publishers but they feel basically powerless, they have to blacklist these advertisers manually and they always come up with new tricks to get around it.

And as much as I would say, dump these ad brokers, I guess the reality is that it's hard to make money in online news at the moment, and these ad networks are the best they have.

Thank you for the insight.

Well, they lost me then and probably many other potential readers on mobile devices.

Happend also on desktop

I've noticed more and more that happens on mobile (not just engadget)

Thus the noose tightens. Huawei is a security threat, and until they do more to show they are independent from the Chinese communist government, the noose will just get tighter.

Fist, Huawei will be mostly fine. They have the largest consumer market called China to them. Second, the notion that a company could be "independent" from the government of the countries that they operate in is hard-to-define at best. Google and Microsoft immediately shut down business with Huawei following Trump's order, without concrete evidence that Huawei had done anything wrong. Huawei is just operating under the laws of China, and also US, EU. They are not so different from the likes of Google, Apple, and Microsoft. All this is a tragedy for the 200 thousand Huawei employees and their families, to see the company they built with hard work getting ruined. And if China retaliates, it will create more tragedies for US companies, their employees and families.

"Huawei will mostly be fine"

"All this is a tragedy for the 200 thousand Huawei employees and their families, to see the company they built with hard work getting ruined"

Are they ruined or fine?

It is a long game.

They will have a lot to tackle in 2019 and 2020. This is a sad story, if they are targeted for no wrongdoing. But in the longrun, they should be mostly fine. Moreover, it is foreseeable that these events help Huawei accelerate their chip and operating system businesses, because there will be a lot more incentive for Chinese government and companies to promote Huawei's ecosystem.