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Huawei's sales and shipments may be shrinking like a snowball in the Sahara, but armed with App Gallery platform stats, it is trying to put on a brave public showing. Figures flashed this week indicate the App Gallery has 2.3 million developers, up 77 per cent on a year ago, and the number of apps using the Huawei's HMS Core …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    "radioactive to larger software houses"

    Yeah, except that Huawei has a 1+ billion population to rely on.

    I'm guessing you can build some pretty big software houses on that basis.

    China may not yet have a Borkzilla, but it will. And that day, you can be sure that China's Borkzilla is going to dwarf every other multinational corporation there is.

    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "radioactive to larger software houses"

      They already have a huge customer base in China (as stated 0.5 billion) , where Google is banned. The question is whether Huawei's OS will make Huawei phones marketable outside of China. At one point I believed that Huawei's OS would be able to get a foothold in India, with cheap hardware carrying the OS to success. That might have been the leg up they needed. But then China's Himalayan troops surprise attacked Indian Himalayan troops with handheld spiked clubs killing 30 or so Indian soldiers.

      China actually does provide about half the worlds manufactured goods. I don't, and nobody should, underestimate the real power and leverage that brings with it. But I don't see China edging out borkzilla with their own zilla, especially when the power of zilla's have already reached their zenith.

      If Huawei really wanted to make a mark, they would market a cellphone hardware base with a stable long term generic OS interface so anydevelopers could develop their OS' on that hardware platform. Let 1000 OS' bloom. But they will never do that because 'open' is anathema to the CCP.

  2. martinusher Silver badge

    The problems are political, not technical

    Huawei's phone business might be "shrinking like a snowball in hot sun" but its not due to a lack of product features or quality, its merely a vendetta by a government out to do it harm. As we're learning with SMIC these attempts to undermine the basis of what are quite reasonable companies are likely to backfire on us so while I expect that Huawei might have challenges in the short term in the longer term it will both survive and thrive.

    Not having Andriod or iOS on a phone may turn out to be an advantage. When you take a look at what is really important on a phone you realize that the vast majority of applications are irrelevant and, furthermore, the application writer needs you, the user, far more than you need their application. So all those figures about the Play Store are really deceptive. If you add to this the idea that a lot of the world is getting a bit fed up with being bullied by the US (and there's no guarantee that the applications that the US so graciously allows them to download are not mined in some way) there's a lot of scope for a third party, especially if it appears to be straight, on the level and generally 'not American'. Trump has done us a huge disfavor by uncorking that particular genie and while Biden might ditch some headline policies and loudly proclaim "We're back" I doubt if words are going to impress the world at large.

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