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Huawei rises from the dead, outsells iPhone in China
(arstechnica.com)
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No, Google Is completely blocked in china so it wouldn't make sense to pay a license for their play services
Fun fact: I had to hard reset my pixel in china and I had trouble to even pass the welcome screen as it would say that the wifi network wasn't working, because they ping a Google server
Bro, Google Play was banned from Huawei in 2019. In response, they started making their own alternatives. The ban came before Huawei moved to HarmonyOS. HarmonyOS was launched in 2019.
You were wrong. Plain and simple.
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where do you live?? Google play was banned in China in 2010. That's NINE years before huawei was banned in the rest of the world. It changed absolutely nothing for them, in the chinese market.
Every single manufacturer, including Samsung, when targeting the chinese market, they don't include any google service
It's like if a vegan gets banned from mcdonalds. "Oh no, anyway", he's going to say