Google collides with Huawei, intentionally

[Skybird]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48330310

This must impact on any ambition to dominate over Samsung in the smartphone and tablet segment, yes - but it could backfire against Google as well.

In the short term, this could be very damaging for Huawei in the West.
Smartphone shoppers would not want an Android phone that lacked access to Google's Play Store, its virtual assistant or security updates, assuming these are among the services that would be pulled.
Longer term, though, this might give smartphone vendors in general a reason to seriously consider the need for a viable alternative to Google's operating system, particularly at a time the search giant is trying to push its own Pixel brand at their expense.
As far as Huawei is concerned, it appears to have prepared for the eventuality of being cut off from American know-how.
Its smartphones are already powered by its own proprietary processors, and earlier this year its consumer devices chief told German newspaper Die Welt that "we have prepared out own operating systems - that's our plan B".
Even so, this move could knock its ambition to overtake Samsung and become the bestselling smartphone brand in 2020 seriously off course.

I like my P9 lite. Unbeatable price at its time, excellent quality, better-than-Android EMUI, and no blocking of storage capacity by Samsung's impetinent loads and loads of undeletable bloatware garbage - it had only few programs installed, and most of them were easy to delete forever. Only some Google "services" were not. Had two samsung tablets, and will never buy Samsung again.