When I first started the Mr Hunzi channel, a netizen asked me, since you love China so much, you must use a Huawei phone instead of an Apple one, right? I answered very honestly that I have always been an Apple user and almost never buy domestic phones. Later, when Huawei launched its budget brand Honor, I started using an iPhone and Honor together. Now I use an iPhone and Huawei together. However, I keep almost all my important data on the iPhone, with the Huawei serving only as a backup phone.
Does this mean Huawei’s performance or features are significantly inferior to Apple’s? In fact, when I use Huawei tablets and phones, their excellent craftsmanship and outstanding user experience undoubtedly offer better value for money than Apple and are better suited to the Chinese market. Since I hardly play large mobile games, I don’t notice the performance advantages of Apple’s CPU and GPU at all. Instead, I can’t put down Huawei’s tablet with its built-in Tian Sheng Hui Hua app, which I occasionally use to unwind.
In fact, I can now complete all my workflows on a Huawei tablet, so I don’t even need to buy a Huawei laptop. My editing software is Jianying, which runs smoothly on the Huawei MatePad. The export time is longer than on a Mac mini, but it doesn’t affect my work efficiency. The HarmonyOS system’s exceptional smoothness is truly impressive. My other workflows involve calling cloud-based AI or using a browser, and for simple photo editing and other daily tasks, the system’s built-in software can handle them easily. A few months before the launch of Huawei’s HarmonyOS PC, I praised in a video that Huawei tablets could already meet most people’s daily office needs. After the PC was released and iterated, China finally has a complete ecosystem with excellent experience from chips to operating systems to applications, something no other Chinese company had achieved before.
I have always been full of praise for Huawei. If the US government hadn’t suppressed it, Huawei would not have lost its position as the world’s largest phone manufacturer, and its ecosystem would be massive today. So why does a patriot like me use the Apple ecosystem as my main work platform?
The reason is simple. I don’t mind the US government or US companies seeing my information, but I am very concerned about Chinese companies and the Chinese government accessing my data. If I lived in the US, I would unhesitatingly buy a full set of Huawei ecosystem products instead of Apple’s as my productivity tools. But the reality is that I live in China, where the Chinese government’s control over information is frightening, and Chinese companies are utterly shameless and without boundaries when it comes to stealing and exploiting user data. Of course, I know US companies and the government do the same, and their methods are also dirty. However, the US government has no judicial jurisdiction over me. The virtual information they have cannot be cross-referenced with the real-world me to make me transparent. But if I use ecosystems from domestic companies like Huawei or Xiaomi, based on my interactions with Chinese state security, if they want my data, they can obtain it through virtually any app.
Although I am a law-abiding citizen, I know that information transparency is a serious disaster for individuals. No one can guarantee they won’t be targeted by the government someday, and if someone unfriendly with access to your data starts digging into you, you will be in endless danger. Since I am an unsuccessful ordinary person, the Chinese government naturally has no interest in me. But if I were a billionaire like Jack Ma, being transparent to the government would be terrifying. Imagine your competitor using low-level personal connections to access your sensitive data. Isn’t that frightening? In China, even an ordinary local police station has the authority to view your private personal information. If they want, they can access channels and even have professionals assist them to thoroughly investigate you. So, a basic survival skill is to never store data in dangerous places, whether it is sensitive or not.
Similarly, if you are a high-profile target of the US or Western countries, or if you live in a country that is not friendly with the West, you should undoubtedly buy a full set of Huawei devices. They not only offer an excellent experience and high quality but also ensure Western countries cannot spy on your information. Even if you use Western apps, they wouldn’t dare snoop on your data on a Huawei phone because the HarmonyOS system is controlled by Huawei. Neither the FBI nor the CIA can handle Huawei. Moreover, Huawei phones sold overseas, to prove their reliability and security, are cleaner than domestic versions. Even if there are backdoors, your data could only be accessed by the Chinese government, not by the US or Western countries, which is very important.
Recall the story of Israel using pagers to kill enemy militants. As long as you use American systems and software long-term, your information is transparent to the US. If the US government wants, it can use big data to strictly monitor everything about you. This approach can be used to monitor people in other countries as well as US citizens. Whether you have criminal intent, are suspected of tax evasion, or even just want to organize a protest against Israel, your own data might betray you.
In the AI field, DeepSeek plays an efficient role in my workflow, and its performance satisfies me greatly. However, it censors my information and sometimes refuses to execute my instructions, even if they don’t violate Chinese laws, simply because it deems them illegal or inappropriate. Of course, American AI models also have many sensitive trigger points, but on the topics I want to discuss, they are generally completely open. So, I use Grok more often as my primary AI assistant instead of DeepSeek. My secondary AI is Gemini, and I have long abandoned GPT, which once fascinated me. Other excellent Chinese models like Qwen and Doubao have also failed to win my favor.
If you are an entrepreneur or tech worker in a non-Western country relying on general-purpose AI models to build your applications, I recommend prioritizing Chinese AI services because the likelihood of being cut off technologically is much lower than with the US. If the US can’t compete with you, it will unhesitatingly crush your country. It doesn’t even allow allies like Japan or the EU to be on equal technological footing, let alone other countries. My suggestion is to use DeepSeek for general-purpose models and try Keling AI for AI video or image generation, which offers a great experience and high value for money.
To sum up this video, if you are Chinese, you should undoubtedly follow my example and use the Apple ecosystem as your tool. If you are involved in gray industries in Western countries or are a citizen of a country unfriendly to the US, such as Iran, then don’t hesitate. You must choose Huawei products as your tools and use Chinese AI tools. You won’t regret it.