Huawei is a villain now in China as state-run and social media attack the company - Android

The U.S. supply chain ban hurts global sales of Huawei's newer handsets. That's because the company has not been able to procure a new license to use the Google Play services version of Android. As a result, recent phones like the Mate 30 series and the foldable were pre-installed with an open-source version of Android. These units also cannot have Google's core Android apps installed such as Search, the Play Store, Gmail, Maps and more. In China, where most Google apps are not allowed anyway, this doesn't matter. But outside of China, the lack of Google apps and the inability of the manufacturer ...