There seems value in just taking the reigns, and making whatever you create open-source, so that ZTE and all the other Chinese manufacturers can use it as well.
Its certainly a major blow to the value of Huawei phones.
Google Maps is a masterpiece of engineering and it's hard to imagine that Huawei will be able to compete, near term. If I'm reading the situation right, this might mean the end of Huawei in the western phone market unless something changes.
Baidu Maps is very good though, I would even say on par with Google Maps and better in some areas. It does however have more obvious ads which is annoying.
Which is a huge deal for Huawei, imo.
Three months ago.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3001685/huawei-co...