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Since May last year, Huawei lost access to Google apps following a ban by U.S. President Donald Trump, placing Huawei on the 'entity list,' restricting the use of products and technology from the U.S. Consequently, their latest flagship series like Huawei Mate 30 runs on their proprietary Huawei Mobile Services instead of Google Mobile Services.Speaking at a press conference in Vienna, Fred Wangfei, Huawei's Director in Austria, emphasized that the company has no plans to go back to using Google services, even if the U.S. lifts the ban.
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At first, this seems like a decisive and resolute move from Huawei. However, it appears that the statement from the director does not represent the company's overall desire. Huawei later issued an official statement as follows:
'An open Android ecosystem remains our top priority, but if we can't continue to use it, we also have the ability to create our own ecosystem'.
This is a more open announcement from Huawei, indicating they still want to use Google services to access markets outside China. On the other hand, it emphasizes that they have their own service suite and app store, not depending on anyone. It neither denies nor confirms.
Huawei is currently making great efforts to create a third ecosystem outside Android and iOS. Having its own ecosystem would help them become 'immune' to future bans from the U.S. They have also announced a $1 billion investment to encourage developers to build apps for the AppGallery store. However, building an app ecosystem might require more than just money, as it depends on various other factors.
Huawei's sales are currently experiencing two extremes, increasing in their home country China and decreasing in international markets.
Huawei's current situation is indeed, 'if not strong, then what'. What do you think, guys?
Source: Androidcentral
