For the new year, wanted to wish the employees of Huawei actually only a happy year 2019. For this, they sent a message on the official Twitter Account. Below: “via Twitter for iPhone”. Say, the Tweet was removed from an Apple Smartphone.

The Tweet Huawei has deleted in the meantime, a Screenshot of which was retweeted, but from the US-Youtuber Marques Brownlee, and has been circulating on social media:

pay cut

The punishment of the responsible employees was carried out promptly and with a hard Hand: Two employees have been demoted a rank, your monthly salary is 5000 Yuan (about 718 francs) will be shortened. The reward of one of the two employees, the digital marketing Manager, will be frozen for 12 months. The internal message, the communications Director, Chen Lifang, the Reuters news Agency. She writes that the incident had damaged the brand Huawei.

Responsible for the gaffe Chen Lifang, according to the company Sapient, to the Social Media work is outsourced. Sapient had a Computer problem with the VPN connection. In this connection it needs to be able to in China on the blocked network to access Twitter. The Sapient employee had sent the Tweet about an iPhone with a Roaming SIM-card to the message in time for the new year post.

Samsung advertises via iPhone

It is not the first Time that Huawei has to do with a Problem: Last year published a brand Ambassador Gal Gadot, known from the Film “Wonder Woman”, a promotional Tweet for Huawei – also from an iPhone.

Also competitor Samsung ran under recently a similar error. The Smartphone manufacturer has applied on its Nigerian Twitter Account of one of its phones. Also, this Tweet was sent from an iPhone. Samsung responded more radical: The entire Nigerian Account has been deleted.

Huawei, Apple runs the ranking from

Apple and Huawei are engaged in a fierce battle for the top positions in the global Smartphone market. Samsung occupied the first place, overtook Huawei to Apple recently for the first time as the second-largest manufacturer. The Chinese group expects to launch in 2018 with a sales record. The proceeds were to be climbing in 2018 and by 21 percent to 109 billion dollars, announced Chairman Guo Ping said in his new year speech.

Apple has suffered, meanwhile, most recently a slump in iPhone sales in China: The company had to lower its sales forecast for the past three months. The share price fell by nearly 10 percent.

also a Burden, the trade works for Apple in dispute between the United States and China. At the beginning of December, the Huawei has been taken in Canada-chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on the Insistence of the United States temporarily. This has led in China to open calls for boycott of Apple products. Some companies offer their employees subsidies to the purchase of Huawei Smartphones. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 04.01.2019, 16:32 PM

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