The one issue with google mobile services (of which google play, their app store, is a part of) is that they are a monopoly, and every developer goes through them because that’s the biggest market, and possibly the easiest for them to enter. Every other problem you have with google on mobile is but a branch of that infested trunk.
I recently got a huawei tablet, one that didn’t come with google services, and the replacement is good enough. I can also easily install other marketplaces like aptoide. But, they clearly don’t have the same apps. Even local apps that are secondary to say, a website or PC software, is on google and nowhere else.
It doesn’t end at just the app store though. Apps that have microtransactions (for example a note-taking app that unlocks with a one-time in-app purchase) usually use Google services and nothing else. Meaning you can’t unlock the app because you don’t have google mobile services installed.
There’s also a lot of shovelware on the huawei store lol, let’s be honest. There’s dozens of poppy playtime clones and the games page is overwhelmed with those. But that’s more of a problem with how app stores work.
The huawei store sends you to apkpure to sideload the app if they don’t have it in store, but this is a shoddy replacement. First of all I have no idea what I’m downloading on apkpure, and secondly it doesn’t restore mobile services (they need to use huawei mobile services for it to be compatible with my tablet). Although the store is capable of tracking versions and telling me when there’s an update on apkpure. I can also just download the apkpure store ig.
edit: despite any of this, I still recommend huawei for tablets and mobile phones. Very good quality at a third of the price or less. They are also building their own ecosystem so expect more interesting things to come in the next years. I also see Xiaomi is even cheaper and just as good, but I’ve never tried their devices myself.
Yup. I’m glad huawei is starting their own app store, but it def needs some polish. Hopefully they’ll get better in the future, and the trade war has already forced them to start making android forks for smartphones. My xiaomi unfortunately still relies on google play services, which is essentially a dangerous rootkit.
I agree tho, I def think ppl should choose chinese tech companies for devices, if only for the reason that south korea or elsewhere gets less money.
The only problem I have with Chinese non-Huawei phones is that they have a lot of ads. Many of them baked into the OS. When I get a phone next I’ll try getting a Chinese phone that has good lineageos support.
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I’m also excited for huawei’s ecosystem seeing that my situation suddenly changed from private consumer to professional (thus why I have the tablet in the first place lol). You can show your phone screen in the tablet and share files by dragging and dropping for example. Or charge up your phone wirelessly by placing it down on the back of the tablet. You can also use huawei share which allows you to send files between devices super fast without using data.
The only problem though is that they block those functions for their higher end phones. My p30 lite does not communicate with these cool features, and that would force me to change my phone. They say it’s because the cpu is not powerful enough but I don’t believe it, because I found out recently that when I was in a game, I could use the game center to open up WhatsApp on my phone in a (tiny) separate window. They just block it because they want you to have the flagship phone, which is still a third of the price of an iPhone lol. Their PC (windows or Linux) support is also terrible, they only communicate with huawei laptops, which are apparently not their best products and which I don’t need seeing I have a tablet lol. I can still connect the phone or tablet with a USB cable to my PC though, so eh.
And they wonder why everyone the US hates is scrambling to develop their own tech platforms.
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Virtue signaling at its finest
