Smart move by both our government and Google.
TRUMP got google to do something positive and pro-American. Amazing!
Mandatory spyware is not a customer preference.
Who would have thunk it?
These billion dollar companies are run by stupid fools.
Crippling to Huawei, but also a big financial hit to Google. Huawei is #2 in handsets. that’s a lot of revenue to walk away from
I would not be surprised that Google also does this with ZTE and possibly Xiaomi, too. No access to the Google Play Store and high-level upgrades to Android is really bad news for several Chinese handset makers.
Google has a history with China. This probably feels good to them at some level. A big up-yours.
Read the article. Huawei will use the open source version of Android. Without the Google bloat initially installed.
No Android for China.
Unless of course they use pirated copies...but that would never happen.
Yep, MIT disassociated too...
Huawei will turn on all the spyware ,LOL
Sounds like more winning for the best President ever...
Of course.
Anyone who ever worked for a general officer or worked in the policr, command and control of any US Agency probably the military, economic, intelligence and the Presidential political structure incorporates all.
Google, Microsoft, and especially Facebook are incorporated into both the Intelligence and military to protect.
At what point this became a “KGB” wet dream is a blurred mirage of the free market.
This could bite G**gle in the arse because Android is open-source and there are a number of non-G**gle sources for the OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distributions
I’m sure many of them would jump at the opportunity to be the Android-provider to Huawei, with the potential side-effect of removing those devices from the G**gle ecosystem.
I have multiple smart devices running the LineageOS Android and I don’t miss G**gle in the least, and I celebrate the fact that they collect zero data from my phones.