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You can’t really use Google Maps in China. Even over VPN it’s outdated and often displays the wrong location due to the GPS scrambling that the government enfo
by pascoej 7y ago
You can’t really use Google Maps in China. Even over VPN it’s outdated and often displays the wrong location due to the GPS scrambling that the government enforces on maps.
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.
- jorblumesea 7y agoHuawei's market is international as well as domestic. Western users are used to Google services. So while they can work around the issue for Chinese users, they basically lose the western market. Who wants Android without the spectrum Google-like services? Which is a huge deal for Huawei, imo.
- thro0239420342 7y agoYou're too biased to see that Google is not actually indispensable. Chinese users don't see Google as indispensable obviously, and provided a choice, others may see it too.