China's Huawei Technologies is plotting a return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of this year, according to research firms, signalling a comeback after a U.S. ban on equipment sales decimated its consumer electronics business.
  • db2English
    4•1 year ago

    decimated

    So it was reduced by ten percent?

  • @ayyndrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    It’s not 100% clear in the article, they still wouldn’t be able to use Google Play Services right?

    • @ghariksforge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      At this point this probably hurts Google more than anyone else. The rise of alternative app stores for Android is Google’s worst nightmare.

      • @roneyxcx@lemdro.idEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        How so? If the alternative app stores where better all OEM’s would have flocked to it. Samsung would have completely dropped Google Play and would exclusively only support Galaxy Store. The only market where OEM’s use alternative app store is China, because Google doesn’t run Google Play in China. Android being open source means anyone can develop an app store and there is nothing stopping anyone. OEM’s continuing to use Google Play is because they get access to millions of apps and ad revenue from Google and none of the other app stores can provide that as of now, except in China.

        • @ghariksforge@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          First China has 1.4 billion people. It’s the biggest market for anything, including Android.

          Second, every parallel appstore weakens Google’s monopoly.

          Third, it’s not hard to develop an Appstore. The difficult part is to get people to use it. Bans are very effective in moving people to a new appstore :)

          • @roneyxcx@lemdro.idEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            What does China having 1.4 billion people mean to Google? nothing, because they have chosen not to do business in that country. So the argument is moot. Even people in China who use VPN, install Google Play store on their phone to access banned apps in China. BTW there are 3 billion 30 day active android phones with Google Play. If you take biggest Android appstore in China it doesn’t even have 500 million 30 day active users.

    • @EddieTee77@lemdro.idEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I wouldn’t think so. That’s still a ban from the US. If I understood correctly, Huawei is building 5G chips themselves with non US technology