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Huawei has a competitive fork of Android, but it's not interested in the West anymore, so it's not going to compete on the US market.
by tazjin 3y ago
Huawei has a competitive fork of Android, but it's not interested in the West anymore, so it's not going to compete on the US market.
- xethos 3y ago> it's not interested in the West anymore Respectfully, I'm not sure it was entirely Huawei (the company)'s decision. Being a major multi-national from mainland China, calling them "an arm of the CCP" isn't really fair, but neither is it entirely false. More to the point - I tried to avoid being misleading; the arm-twisting (we know of) ended in 2018. But between the precedent, and the dozen other proprietary Google frameworks and legal agreements that could be serviced to this end in confidential OEM deals, I'm completely unsurprised nobody else has really stepped up.
- GeekyBear 3y ago> nobody else has really stepped up Amazon's Fire phones and Fire tablets were certainly another example at forking Android (and providing replacement versions of the services), but Amazon had to find a hardware OEM that didn't already make Android devices for anyone else, due to Google's anticompetitive licensing requirements.