Huawei's founder expects the U.S. to dial up its attack on the company - Android

Things were going along just swimmingly for Huawei at the beginning of 2019. Then May 15th arrived and things changed. The U.S. Commerce Department put Huawei on the entity list due to security concerns. As a result, , which it spent $11 billion on in 2018. Huawei said that it had anticipated such an action and had built up inventories of some parts.

But what Huawei could not do was quickly replace Google's licensed version of Android. This prevents Huawei's newer models from using Google's Android apps such as Maps, Search, the Google Play Store, Gmail, Drive and ...