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

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.