I've been spending some time in Italy, and I've been surprised to notice that banks, services and tv advertisements are often talking about the Huawei Appgaller

I've been spending some time in Italy, and I've been surprised to notice that banks, services and tv advertisements are often talking about the Huawei Appgallery (it's listed as an alternative for Google Play or the iOS app store)... Obviously, that's because new Huawei phones won't be able to ship with the Google Play services, so they had to invest in this, to be able to deliver a decent app ecosystem to their users and thus stay afloat... But this also means that it's thus a viable alternative (unencumbered by US diktats) to distribute stuff like Wechat and Tiktok, example: https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C5683 https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C5683 Obviously, enabling a third party store is still a form of sideloading, which opens you up to risks, but at least people won't have to manually manage APKs The silver lining is that this might increase competition, and let also other 3rd party stores thrive (i.e. F-Droid, Amazon store, etc.)