In the last few weeks, we have published many Huawei related news, but not exclusively those that are related to the blockade by the United States, but also with the next terminals that you plan to launch on the market, either with Android if the blockage finally disappears or with Ark OS o SailFish OS.
During the first days, many were the people who, fearing that their terminals would stop working in the near future, began to sell their terminals, including the P30 Pro, at ridiculous prices, one of the best smartphones on the market. But in addition, sales in physical stores have also declined considerably.
From Huawei they had not commented on the drop in sales. As we can read in Bloomberg, the Asian giant Huawei affirms that their sales expectations have fallen between 40 and 60% due to the blockade of the American government, citing different internal sources. In numbers, Huawei could stop selling between 40 and 60% million terminals outside of China, the market currently represents half of its sales.
In case there was any doubt about these figures, Huawei's own CEO, Ren Zhengfei, has confirmed in an interview with the Washington Post that sales are down by up to 40%. However, it seems that the Asian market is responding to this blockage and sales figures in its country have skyrocketed.
Huawei sold more than 2018 million smartphones in 200 and had the intention of surpassing Samsung throughout 2019, once it had managed to be in second position beating Apple.
The problem that Huawei faces is not only related to the blockade by American companies, but it will also have a difficult time so that if this blockade is finally eliminated, regain the trust of those users who had trusted it.
Winning a client costs a lot, however losing it costs nothing. It is also likely that change your strategy y start selling cheaper smartphones including advertising as Xiaomi or Amazon does in their Fire tablets, so that the price is a determining factor when it comes to being considered as an option by potential customers.