I predict their own Android fork and China-focused app store will do fine in China, but struggle big time in other markets.
While if Huawei uses the Android open source base, the only thing they have to do is entice developers to submit another copy of their app to their store, which is a much lower barrier than the one MS faced to develop a whole new ecosystem
The Shenzhen ecosystem has taken the idea of 'Open' and 'Open Source' further than perhaps anywhere else in the world. Huawei the company is built on that kind of information sharing. I highly doubt it's alien to Huawei.
[2] https://convidera.com/article/shenzhen-chinas-ecosystem-for-...
white people have a way of saying incredibly insulting, demeaning things about non-whites in a way that it is acceptable in common discourse.
statement such as these need to be called out for what they are - biased opinions based on an irrational fear of "the chinese"
You've assigned a race to another poster based on your own preconceptions of the attitudes and behaviors of members of that race (kicking off your reply to snaky with "white people have a way of [...]") and lumped all members of a race together (accusing all white people of making derogatory statements regarding other races).
How do you even know he or she is white? Why racialize a comment in this manner?
For example, there are a ton of SDKs that provide push notifications, such as Baidu, Tencent, etc...
There are also "super apps", such as WeChat, that offer their own API surface and can be preferable to some app devs.
Then there are some things, such as "advertising id", which none of these SDKs provide (at the moment?).
So yeah, the answer is somewhere between "it's complicated" and "no one".
then, I think they have a chance to attract app developers. Otherwise, I doubt it.
For the rest of the world, it would be completely different story. It is hard to imagine Huawei won't loss huge market share from the EU and rest of the world without Google's Play Store.
The Chinese market on the other hand will always have users, is huge and I presume most developers won't be willing to give up on it. If they do, someone else will serve their customers and might become a future competitor globally.
China-focused apps will only have to re-implement google services. That sound a lot easier to me than supporting an entirely different OS. If those versions can run on google phones as well, devs have the option to drop the play store version down the line to save cost.
I wouldn't bet a lot on it, but this might be the best chance we ever had to get a real play store competitor.
Palm was a dominant mobile platform until Palm nuked itself with 5 years of clownade with Palm OS 6
Symbian was the biggest, most dominant mobile OS globally until Nokia didn't decide to simply trow it away.
JM2E was the most largely adapted app platform, even into early Android years, until Oracle/Sun simply stopped licensing it...
Now think just how thin is the ice Google is on now with it flirting with idea of "rebooting" Android with Fucsia
I'm not familiar with Palm OS, but Symbian and JM2E both has the iPhone and Android OSs as growing threats. Google hasn't officially stated that it is rebooting Android, and even if they did (and did it right), there isn't a major alternative lurking around the corner...
They have experience on chat and payment software and infrastructure system used by millions of people in their country.
It was the one and only Chinese brand with whom Google made a Nexus phone in the past — at least in part to lessen their enthusiasm in throwing out Google market in Western countries
If one thing the last 50 years has taught us is that whatever the US can do an Asian competitor can do as well.
Generalized, I think it's safe to assume any developed country willing to invest in manufacturing is capable of doing what any other country can do [in manufacturing] as well.
Why would they need it to be popular anywhere other than China?
I guess you don't get the relative security of app stores, and there's no widespread culture of free apps on phones like on PCs.
I'd really love, not a new phone or OS, but just an app store that works under a different model. Cheap or free for developers to post, but curated to exclude the most predatory forms of monetization.
How do we solve the trusted app problem on PCs?
We don't install whatever random thing comes up in google. We look for a trusted recommendation.
App stores are just teaching us that it's ok to install any app, which is not necessarily the best security model.