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Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Re: Google suspends some business with Huawei

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Post by judge2020 »

mrosett wrote: post #7

Alternative headline: “Google complies with law”. They didn’t have much choice here.

Otherwise, the article is good for showing the extent of the political situation.

One might be able to stretch this to 'US aids potential cyber attacks in China' since phones in China might no longer receive security updates in Android.

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Post by duxup »

DannyBee wrote: post #9
duxup wrote: post #4

Anyone know anything about this able to break this down a bit further? This sounds like it all revolves around Android / Huawei getting booted from the Open Handset Alliance maybe?

It's because they were literally blacklisted by the US government. As other comments say, all companies in the US will do the same, it's not about Google, as much as the article tries to make it about Google

I'm thinking more about about the specifics of what exactly is being limited here and etc.

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Post by yding »

dirtyid wrote: post #2

If true, this is certainly a nuclear move. There's a variety of first party app stores in China, though I doubt they'll see much success convincing Western users to switch. Curious if there's going to be antitrust fallout from markets outside the US for unilaterally crippling vendors at behest of US foreign policy. Is Microsoft or Apple going to pull their app stores as well? What happened to project Dragon Fly? On t…

The biggest threat to Google in my opinion would be the possibility that Huawei and China could try to "steal" Android from them.

Imagine in 2021 the Chinese government mandates that every Chinese smartphone manufacturer needs to switch to ChAndroid for all of their product lines, with a single unified app store, whether they sell the phones inside or outside of China. Well, fully half of the top smartphone companies in the world are Chinese. So all of a sudden Google would lose the ability to monetize on almost half of the ecosystem.

And if it were open and successful, other Android manufacturers could move over. Samsung would LOVE the ability to get a piece of the search and app revenue on every one of their phones. Right now they're locked out because of Google's licensing agreement for Android, but they must look at how much money Google pays Apple every year to be the default search provider very longingly.

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Post by fffrantz »

If this also revokes the GMS agreements, it will have a much larger impact than the updates part. A whole lot of things on Android are dependant on the GMS, such as push notifications for certain apps, cloud storage of user data, and a lot more. Let's see where the it all ends up, but this may turn to be an enormous crippling move for Android on Huawei/Honor devices.
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