Huawei will immediately lose access to updates to the Android operating system, and the next version of its smartphones outside of China will also lose access to popular applications and services including the Google Play Store and Gmail app ... !!! # R.I.P Huawei Outside China
Huawei is nearly the world’s biggest smartphone vendor. Their exclusion from licensed Android and fork away from Google is the biggest news in smartphones since, well, Android.
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Much easier to reverse engineer "software" than Hardware. Why can't China sell its alternative to android?
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No, quite the opposite. Software is so hard and network effects are so strong that it creates single source monopolies while there are thousands of hardware suppliers.
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Sorry but that's wrong. Software is very simple to "copy"/hack. Only reason its not done more often is laws. But if US uses its might to block Android, why can't China simply copy it? They already have their own version of Twitter/Whatsapp/Google/Amazon/AWS...
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The Chinese versions of software exist because the originals are banned. Copying software may be easy but copying software businesses is nearly impossible. Your question was regarding “selling” software.
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Android fork means that soon all Chinese phones will have "homegrown" chinese android fork. And as Chinese phones have captured the global low end market, it means replacing Google/Android for >50% of worlds population...
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Chinese Android is already the default for China. Google is banned in China so all Chinese phones have forked the OS. The Google services stack is what consumers look for outside China.
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I and my family are using Xiaomi for ages. Only google app we use is Chrome, Gmail & maps. Xiomei is already pushing its "custom" browser over Chrome. I am pretty sure Youtube, Gmail, maps should be available over the Chinese android. So how would I be impacted?
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If you look at Smart TVs, the 2 biggest vendors have already left Android: Samsung with Tizen & LG’s webOS. In phones they haven’t been able to leave, but with Huawei being forced off it could spark similar splintering into vendor-specific platforms outside of Fire and AOSPs.
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The strategic vulnerability was always there.
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Also probably means a heavy impact on Apple business in China (aka retribution)
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Even Google will take a hit for these...Huawei is one of their biggest partner
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The Android ecosystem is in jeopardy.
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God help us all
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What's interesting here is that Google is cutting itself from a huge number of users. Not good for their business.
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Yes, though the value of a typical Huawei user is relatively low and the base is not yet huge.
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Every Chinese phone vendors have their own UI layers(ie: MiUI) on top of android targeting Chinese market. Now they just need to put that on every phone overseas too. What’s the big deal?
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F M A N R E T A N I G T O
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True. That will be the direct result of a forced fork. But hopefully they will only stay on the UI layer. The biggest loser will be Google then for losing control, maybe they should also default the search engine to Bing just for fun.
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