Huawei Planning to Keep Android, but Replace Google Apps and Services

After all the speculations surrounding Huawei'due south Harmony OS (known as HongMeng in Communist china) and repeated assertions from the visitor'due south founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, on how information technology may supercede Android in hereafter smartphones from the company, it turns turns out a full Android replacement was never on the firm'due south agenda in the get-go place. According to Huawei's VP of public relations, Joy Tan, Huawei does not need to supplant Android, it only needs an alternative to Google Mobile Services (GMS).

According to Tan, the Chinese telecom behemothic is already working on 'Huawei Mobile Services' (HMS) to replaces Google apps and services, but it will accept a long fourth dimension to replace Google equally the platform of pick for smartphone users outside China. While the company is understood to have been already working on an IoT operating organisation of its own, work on the technology started in hostage post-obit the Us-imposed sanctions that are preventing Us companies from doing concern with it.

It's worth noting here that the Mate thirty and Mate 30 Pro accept already launched without Google services; a disquisitional functionality that many believe might impact their global sales significantly. Thank you to the ongoing trade war betwixt the U.s.a. and China, the devices are the starting time Huawei smartphones to lack official Google support, which means even though they run Android, they don't have admission to any official Google apps and services, including Google Play, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube etc.

Information technology will be interesting to see if Huawei will be able to lure plenty developers to port their apps over to its ain platform, just given that the company already has a massive (Android) user base of operations in China, information technology may still exist an easier task to become developers to support its Android-based platform than to shift everybody over to a new OS altogether.