The smartphone brand survived by leaving Huawei. Its second act is a more interesting trick: making phones, PCs and wearables work like one AI system - while borrowing some of the best pieces from everyone else.
The company that put a radio in the car and a phone in the hand spent years being bought, sold and outpaced. Its comeback offers a sharper lesson: heritage works only when it is attached to a product people can recognize across the room.