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Huawei says it will never use Google apps again and then walks it back

January 30, 2020

Huawei was placed on the U.S. Commerce Department’s entity list in the middle of last May which prevents the Chinese manufacturer from accessing its U.S. supply chain. The company had built up inventories of key components in advance and has been able to find workarounds allowing it to skirt the ban. The one U.S. based firm that Huawei probably misses the most is Google since the ban prevents it from licensing Google Mobile Services. As a result, Huawei’s latest flagship lines (2019’s Mate 30 and the upcoming P40) use an open-source version of Android and won’t run Google’s Android apps.

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