Huawei ban - winners and losers

20 May 2019
This affects more than just Huawei - consumers, Android, Google, even competitors will have to deal with the fallout from this.

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  • Anonymous
  • 4j4
  • 21 May 2019

I tried a Nova 4e bought in the chinese market. No play store... installed the APK (with the seller doing it for me), it was a no go. Took the phone to the hotel and try to do it my way. Play store installed. Phone rebooted, play store vanished... ok, let's download the apks... whatsapp... installed, never started after receiving the message... the worst part was that my gmail account it never could be used on the phone, outlook started screaming about invalid security certificates....
So, if the future phones are going to be something like this, then they will crash and burn.

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    • Anonymous
    • XNk
    • 21 May 2019

    Dominique, 21 May 2019Were they not partners? Remember, US started it and then as... moreIt benefits Apple in the US, not China.

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      • Anonymous
      • XNk
      • 21 May 2019

      Sony Mobile fans rejoice. Trump has just thrown you a lifeline.

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        • Anonymous
        • PUn
        • 21 May 2019

        Will China take counter-action to ban the sales of iphone in China?

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          • LoboOne
          • PVW
          • 21 May 2019

          In this matter, I hope Huawei want to use and develop SailFish OS. It's a great OS but no manufacture support

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            • Anonymous
            • Lit
            • 21 May 2019

            Back when android was young, I had WinMo, eclaire, and Linux on my HD2.
            It was fun switching back and forth.
            If phone manufacturers could give us the choice of OS I wouldn't even mind Win10 with phone capability.

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              • kate
              • StM
              • 21 May 2019

              Open and transparent is the future large countries companies mainly wall builders what way do China take

                Winners: Ericsson and Nokia and Samsung in Networks.

                Samsung and Apple in phones. I don't think people are now brave enough to buy other Chinese brands, because the Trump administration can do whatever it likes to them and ban them in an instant, as the trade war continues. Unfortunately.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 3Y2
                  • 21 May 2019

                  THE-TRUTH-REVEALER, 20 May 2019There is a key thing that any OS except Android and iOS lac... moreAndroid sell well because of cheap price of android phones even when it comes to high end phones that price drops with 3 month.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 3Y2
                    • 21 May 2019

                    THE-TRUTH-REVEALER, 20 May 2019There is a key thing that any OS except Android and iOS lac... moreWell said.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 3Y2
                      • 21 May 2019

                      Zendroid, 20 May 2019Losers = America. Winners = Europe and Asia. Why? Becaus... moreLosers = Huawei

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                        • Lao
                        • mAS
                        • 21 May 2019

                        I whish I could see the "we told you so" faces of the developing team of Huawei's in-house OS, when they requested more funds for their work a while back. You don't just start making your own OS unless you knew this was coming. But, when you find you're too cheap to invest in your OS... this is what you get.

                        This would be the right moment for Huawei to turn to the Huawei comunities/fans and push its' own Beta versions of OS to those people. What better and faster feedback could you have? It could be up and running in a few months.

                          If Huawei will fight with it's own OS, it will take a lot of time to develop from beginning, try to introduce and sell the new product to the world. Until that time, Huawei already left by customer and replaced by other brand.
                          If Huawei still use open source Android without play store and other google stuff but use other stores, customer outside china will think if the apps from that kind of stores are safe for them.
                          I myself definitely not going to use if I doubt the safety, for now we put a lot of stuff in our phone.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 803
                            • 21 May 2019

                            Anonymous, 21 May 2019And the 20% of Huawei clients that live out of China will h... morenobody is bigger than huawei. huawei is china. do not kid yourself in thinking that it is private company. that is just for show. there are allready equivalent to all apps they just need translation to english. millions of apps in playstore are irelevant. 99% of users just use facebook and few games

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 3Y2
                              • 21 May 2019

                              Anonymous, 21 May 2019Advanced users can always sideload Google Play Services and... moreHuawei topped Apple please when you compare to Apple iPhone compare Apple to Apple a flagship to flagship don’t count Huawei mid range phones with flagship phones that sold combined more than iPhone, yeah same goes to Samsung phones.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • KSy
                                • 21 May 2019

                                China will win this war. Trade war gonna hurt both countries' companies a lot but Thump has an election to win while Xi don't.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 803
                                  • 21 May 2019

                                  naive analysis. it will take huawei less than one month to have a store. there is allready alternative to all google services by bidu, yandex.. they just need to translate them. huge oportunity for baidu to go globally. the biggest looser long term will be google. they take 30% from developers for all sales on playstore

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                                    • goto
                                    • IbE
                                    • 21 May 2019

                                    Al-Aqsa Lover, 21 May 2019Google Play services can be imported manuallyyeah good luck with 1% geek users

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • LQu
                                      • 21 May 2019

                                      Shui8, 21 May 2019Trump only concerns when it comes about 'China' & 'Mexi... moreCPU is not.
                                      Samsung is not the only maker of RAM and storage for cellphones.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • LQu
                                        • 21 May 2019

                                        sohail shafayat, 21 May 2019the scenario will be changed. I believe Microsoft failed du... more950 was a great phone.
                                        Except for having windows inside.