Seeking big name apps, Huawei offers developers a larger slice of the pie - Android

After the U.S. put Huawei on the entity list last May for being a threat to national security, the Chinese manufacturer was banned from accessing the state-side supply chain it spent $11 billion on in 2018. One of the first American firms to respond to the ban was Google. Losing the ability to license Google Mobile Services cost Huawei the right to have its phones powered by the Google version of the open-source Android operating system. It also means that the company's new phones can not run Google's core Android apps like the Play Store, Gmail, Search, Maps, Drive and more.

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