Google will stop collaborating with Huawei and their phones will not have Google Play or Android updates.
The relationship between Google and Huawei is shaky due to
the last executive order signed by President Donald Trump last Thursday, and
everything seems to indicate that we will soon see its consequences. As
reported by Reuters and confirms The Verge, Google has decided to suspend with
Huawei those businesses that require hardware and software transfer, except
those covered by open source licenses.
If confirmed what Reuters says, this decision would leave
Huawei without access to Android updates and the company's next phones outside
of China would also lose access to various Google applications, such as the
Play Store and Gmail.
Huawei will continue to have access to the Android operating
system as it is an open source system and open to all, however Google would
eliminate Huawei access to its services. A decision that would also affect that
Google would stop offering technical assistance to Huawei and support in
relation to Android.
According to Reuters, Google is still discussing the details
of specific services internally. On behalf of Huawei, they are still studying
the impact of the actions approved by the US Department of Commerce. In
response to the executive order of the Trump Administration, Huawei reported
that "they are willing to collaborate with the US government and propose
effective measures to guarantee the safety of the product."
How would a
hypothetical Huawei with Android without collaboration with Google:
If Google finally decides to cut its relationship with
Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer will be left without access to Android Q
updates for their current phones, as these depend on Google itself.
The brand could continue to use the Android base (AOSP) that
can be used freely, but their next devices would have to be offered only with
their own application store. Huawei would stop offering the "Android of
Google" in its terminals, to simply go to offer an Android fork with its
own services.
If the Reuters report is correct, the next Huawei phones
would run out of access to Google applications. That is, they would arrive with
EMUI and its different applications, but Google applications and Google Mobile
Services (Google Play Store, among others) would not have pre-installed.
At the beginning of March, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei, already
stated that in case of having to stop working with Android they had a plan B.
Although, of course, they preferred to work with the ecosystems of Google and
Microsoft.
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