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I never remember the clear lines. I think they're bared from US distribution and PlayStore being Google is a no-go. But they're not banned in the EU nor SEA o

I never remember the clear lines. I think they're bared from US distribution and PlayStore being Google is a no-go. But they're not banned in the EU nor SEA or anywhere outside the US really, and the open source part of android is also probably fair game. It feels like refocusing on the Chinese market only is a business move more than a limitation of what they can do. Perhaps Xiaomi is putting too much market pressure to make it viable to them ?

metalman 2y ago
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Al-Khwarizmi 2y ago
While they can sell phones in the EU, having no access to the closed parts of Android is a big deal, as it brings problems with many everyday needs like banking apps. In my country, Spain, Huawei was the market leader with over 28% market share: https://e00-expansion.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2019/02/15/15502668882075.gif https://e00-expansion.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/20... Since the ban, their market share suddenly plunged and is now 3%, and obviously the reason is lack of Google services. I myself stopped buying Huawei phones despite thinking that they were far superior to other brands (Xiaomi is a joke compared to the reliability of Huawei products, my 2019 Huawei P30 Pro is still in active use by my wife and its battery lasts for more than a day after close to five years. She didn't want to "update" to a newer Pixel 6 Pro since the battery was much worse). But I don't have time to spend on periodically hacking the phone to get access to Google services when an update makes the previous hack stop working.