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>"It forced us to use the HMS [Huawei Mobile Services] core." This is the major failure I see here. Basically, no one wants Huawei's blobby bloatware with syst
by bubblethink 7y ago
>"It forced us to use the HMS [Huawei Mobile Services] core."
This is the major failure I see here. Basically, no one wants Huawei's blobby bloatware with system level privileges any more than Google's blobby bloatware with system level privileges. If the world thinks that you are a Chinese spying company, you do not combat that by shipping more crap. They had a good opportunity to either extend AOSP or to make HMS open source. Instead, they imitate Google poorly.
- tinus_hn 7y agoThere’s plenty of people of simply don’t care about that, they just want a cheap and pretty phone.
- londons_explore 7y agoSignificantly extending AOSP is hard. As soon as you make architectural changes, you've effectively made a fork, and it'll be a massive amount of work to merge future versions of AOSP and your fork. Unless you want to put as many engineering dollars into it as Google does, you'd be better off to keep near vanilla AOSP, and build stuff on top as APK's.