Last year, due to a trade war with China, the US government banned American companies from working with Huawei, which caused some of the manufacturer's smartphones to come out without Google services and apps preinstalled. Huawei has offered its own to replace them, and it looks like the company has no plans to return to Google.
As a Huawei executive told Der Standard, the company will not use Google apps and services even if the US government ban is completely lifted. It is reported that the Chinese manufacturer will focus on developing its own ecosystem and app store Huawei AppGallery, which is a full-fledged equivalent of the Play Store.
According to a Huawei spokesperson, the company has allocated a whopping $3 billion to grow its store and ecosystem. The company encourages developers from all over the world to develop applications for AppGallery, and very soon some popular and well-known projects, or their full-fledged counterparts, will appear in this store. For example, Huawei is partnering with TomTom to create an alternative to Google Maps.
Note also that Huawei is no stranger to developing apps outside the Play Store, given that it is banned in China. In the Celestial Empire, a set of applications and services has been successfully existing for quite a long time, alternative to what Google offers, so Huawei is only faced with the task of distributing them outside of China. This, of course, will be very difficult, since Google applications are already familiar and respected by users around the world.
However, over the past decade, devices from Huawei and its subsidiary Honor have become very popular around the world, so Huawei has a chance of success. Incidentally, Huawei plans to test its own Harmony operating system on a limited number of devices this year. It will be interesting to see how the Chinese company will encourage users to abandon the familiar Android. A Huawei executive previously mentioned that in 2020 the company will offer sub-$5 150G smartphones that could just get the new system, or at least Huawei's own services. Such devices, of course, can arouse interest among users.
Source: 3dnews.ru