Huawei will keep Android app support for international devices
- rosesarerosie
- n2M
- 21 Nov 2023
Feem, 21 Nov 2023Lemme guess, GSpace?
Or something else? Genuinely curious here.Gbox, Gspace
Have you tried these or any other ?
- rosesarerosie
- n2M
- 21 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 21 Nov 2023The West is decoupling from china and there's nothing ... moreAw, well guess we have to wait and see how things will turn out dahhling
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- Anonymous
- nwF
- 21 Nov 2023
rosesarerosie, 21 Nov 2023No account = no opinionThe West is decoupling from china and there's nothing you can do about it 🥰
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- Anonymous
- XTA
- 21 Nov 2023
nah at the end of the day you can still install apk using virtual machine/like second space or emulated
- Feem
- IbL
- 21 Nov 2023
rosesarerosie, 21 Nov 2023It literally takes 5 mins to get the G apps running, other ... moreLemme guess, GSpace?
Or something else? Genuinely curious here.
- justasmile
- vjq
- 21 Nov 2023
rosesarerosie, 21 Nov 2023No account = no opinionLOL you don't have mind control powers.
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- robi10101298
- nDZ
- 21 Nov 2023
bring back GMS support and add 10x telephoto and you'll be nr1 soon :)
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- Ssg
- r39
- 21 Nov 2023
Xiaomi should be panicking😊
Huawei are on a good start but no one should think this journey will be that easy,
Apple "the rich" had same plan of building such type of garden but where are they today...🤷
Type C, RCS,the EU asking for iOS garden to be cracked open and then the rumors of making the next iphone series look same like an s23+ (selfie punch hole on work)... 🤔
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- Avon B7
- Jc7
- 21 Nov 2023
robi10101298, 21 Nov 2023but with no google photos backup, no whatsapp backup and so... morePre-sanctions, EMUI Whatsapp backup to Huawei Cloud was actually a listed option along with Google Drive.
I don't know if that remains the case with EMUI post sanctions.
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- Rodolf
- L1w
- 21 Nov 2023
"the company still sees itself as a major software and hardware manufacturer (in the world) of mobile phones"
*in China.
They're no longer competing in international markets when it comes to smartphones, they can't sell their flagship phones out of China, they can't make their own operating system global (so no devs from other countries will be involved to help make the operating system grow). They're just hoping Google will be back for them! Unfortunate for us consumers, they're out and not even meaning to compete globally (it's their message saying that).
While Samsung and Apple (and the rest of copycats) will happily continue to provide us with small increments of changes in phones every year until they make sure to squeeze the last drop of cents from our pockets without major technology breakthroughs.
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- Avon B7
- Jc7
- 21 Nov 2023
Some clarification.
Huawei always stated (right from the original presentation back in 2019) that HarmonyOS would be a fully 'non-Android' system at some point.
In fact, as a multi-kernel system from day one, no 'Android' support was present on the early versions of HarmonyOS which ran on the HarmonyOS kernel.
In fact some components (security elements were actually being used in LiteOS in watch kernels) before HarmonyOS was released.
When support for phones (and larger memory devices) came along a few years later, support for Android apps was included. That made perfect sense for all markets.
The overall goal though (as presented in 2019) hadn't changed, though. Android support would be phased out at some point.
HarmonyOS NEXT is simply part of the bigger picture. Logically it will be well suited to the Chinese market first.
Outside China, EMUI (with most of the HarmonyOS key functionality) can continue its development path on phones. On Non-phone devices (TVs, routers, wearables, tablets etc) HarmonyOS has been shipping for a couple of years already with each device supporting the flavour of HarmonyOS best suited for it. That means things like routers and watches will probably continue to use a more homegrown kernel, while tablets will continue to use HarmonyOS (NOT EMUI) with AOSP code in the system. We're talking about outside China here.
At some point, it is likely (probable) that HarmonyOS NEXT will break out of China.
FWIW, Honor's MagicOS also has basic HarmonyOS compatibility on some levels. I'm convinced that MagicOS is in reality HarmonyOS when it comes down to it.
What is absolutely necessary outside China but not too well implemented at the moment, is for HMS on non-HarmonyOS Android systems, to become a first class citizen within the HarmonyOS ecosystem itself.
That means that once you have HMS/AppGallery installed on any system and login to a HuaweiID account, things like Huawei Cloud/Drive should work in the same way they work on HarmonyOS/EMUI devices.
Huawei also needs an international YouTube equivalent and to pursue its own search engine development (Petal Search seems to have fallen back onto Bing for search).
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- robi10101298
- nDZ
- 21 Nov 2023
rosesarerosie, 21 Nov 2023It literally takes 5 mins to get the G apps running, other ... morebut with no google photos backup, no whatsapp backup and so on :(
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- Anonymous
- 056
- 21 Nov 2023
rosesarerosie, 21 Nov 2023Samsung is shakingSamsung is more "worried" about Blackberry than Huawei.
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- Anonymous
- I@H
- 21 Nov 2023
rosesarerosie, 21 Nov 2023It literally takes 5 mins to get the G apps running, other ... moreTrue. I am not sure how Android users are filtered with this. Maybe they're better off buying iPhones?
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- Anonymous
- m51
- 21 Nov 2023
Is Mate 60 Pro global reason definitely a no-go?
- rosesarerosie
- n2M
- 21 Nov 2023
justasmile, 21 Nov 2023Nahhh. EMUI sucks with the ban.It literally takes 5 mins to get the G apps running, other than that its an insanely smooth OS with a lot of functions
- rosesarerosie
- n2M
- 21 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 21 Nov 2023Samsung is rocking not shaking. No any brand is better.No account = no opinion