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Huawei could make their own Play Services, API-compatible with Google, then all apps would work the same. Maybe that's what they actually do now.
by snaky 7y ago
Huawei could make their own Play Services, API-compatible with Google, then all apps would work the same. Maybe that's what they actually do now.
- sbarre 7y agoAs the article says, Amazon spent _years_ trying this approach and ultimately failed with their phone project. So sure it's possible, but it's not as easy as you perhaps think?
- rob74 7y agoWell, yes, but maybe the failure was more due to not many users being willing to accept that much vendor lock-in, rather than issues with Amazon's Android version?
- snaky 7y agoAmazon tried to make their own copy of Play Store, not Play Services.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoAmazon's phone failed because it was a new product in a very crowded market that didn't offer anything new of significance.
- bregma 7y agoAw c'mon, it's just software.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoHuawei already does this in China, where Google services are blocked. Their problem isn't implementing these things. Their problem is convincing non-Chinese developers to port their apps to Huawei's ecosystem.
- taormina 7y agoOh man, the Fire Phone has so many problems as a product. As someone who turned a large Android Google Play app into a Fire Phone compatible one, I think it took me literally a day to swap out the Google Maps implementation with the Amazon Maps one and that was very nearly it. I'm convinced that the hijacking the swipe to go home was the real killer of that thing. I honestly don't know how people actually used that thing because scrolling on any list in any app basically left you with 50:50 odds of heading back to the home page. I'm not stating that the problem isn't hard, just that the Fire Phone had other issues.