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Google restricts Huawei's use of Android
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IANS | 20 May, 2019
Google has cut phone maker
Huawei off from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a
blow to the Chinese firm. New Huawei smartphones will also lose access
to popular Google apps.
The move comes after the Trump
administration added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms
cannot trade with unless they have a licence.
In a statement, Google said it was "complying with the order and reviewing the implications".
Huawei
has declined to comment. Only about two months ago Richard Yu, the CEO
of Huawei's consumer products division had told a German newspaper that
the beleaguered Chinese smartphone brand had been prepping a mobile OS
as a kind of Plan B if the company ever got cut off by Google from
relying on Android, bgr.com reported.
The move by Google, means
the company has just lost its Android license, and its devices will no
longer receive Android updates -- nor will its future handsets be able
to access Google apps as well as the Google Play Store. Any new Huawei
devices would no longer have apps such as YouTube and Maps.
Huawei can still use the version of the Android operating system available through an open source licence, though.
Ben
Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy, said the move by Google would
have "big implications for Huawei's consumer business".
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