[novariation]

The main consumer of Huawei is not the privacy-obsessed western HN reader, but a third world customer that has a fairly lower expectation of privacy compared to the average American.

Think of cheaper phones in China, India, Pakistan, South America, and so on. Huawei can aim for literally billions of customers without these features, just by being an all-around useful OS in every day life for the people who usually don't have phones as part of their daily toolbox yet.