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Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away

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Although Huawei can roll out a Google free phone using the ASOP portion of Android and use their own app store, but wouldn't the US ban also stop other US based software developers and services releasing their apps on an Huawei app store? Think Facebook, Microsoft etc. Therefore meaning users would have to resort to manually downloading apps such as Whatsapp and skype onto their phone possibly from dodgy websites.

Its easy enough with rooted devices and a bit of knowledge to flash the Gapps onto a device that hasn't been certified by Google. I have a cheap Chinese tablet that I did this on a few years ago. But that isn't really something a lot of end users would want to do.

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