Brand rivalry can sometimes go to such extremes. This is the case of Huawei, the successful Asian firm that for a few months has overtaken Apple as the world's top selling phone company, in order to be located only behind Samsung, the other rival to beat.
It has recently been reported that the Chinese giant has punished some employees responsible for posting a tweet on the famous bird's social network; in this "happy new year" was wished from an iPhone. In detail, what happened was the following. Keep reading!
As we said, the tweet was posted just moments before the new year arrived. This one was removed immediately, but not before it caught the attention of Marquee Brownlee, a youtuber. This character was the same person responsible for picking up the tweet when Samsung Nigeria published a promotion for the Galaxy Note 9 from an iPhone.
That was fast pic.twitter.com/y6k0FJF7Gq
- Brownlee Brands (@MKBHD) January 1, 2019
Huawei Malaysia was also surprised by tweeting a New Year's message with the Twitter app for iPhone. According to reports, the manufacturer has punished those responsible for the errors.
The person directly responsible for the Malaysia branch will be notified and criticized. Furthermore, the rank of the staff will be lowered in level and the monthly salary will be reduced by 5,000 yuan (about 638 euros). In addition to this, the annual evaluation of staff performance will not exceed "B".
The staff will also have their promotion and salary increase frozen for 12 months, precisely from January 2, 2019. In addition to the person directly responsible, the digital marketing supervisor and the team were also judged by Huawei. This makes it clear that the brand does not give rise to any type of failure, and less when you want to go all out to win in the market. Apple, for its part, will surely have enjoyed the event.