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4 years ago

Huawei says its existing products will not be affected

4 years ago

Huawei ensures that your existing products, your Smart Phones, your tablets etc. will not be affected by the current talks.

Sources of the Chinese company in Panama ask for 'calm and tranquility' to the users. Ensure that you can continue to access the most popular services, applications and updates from Google in the brand products that are already on the market. A source from the Huawei Panama Office said that "all existing brand products today" will continue to have the software update services and security patches offered by Google.

'All Huawei products that have been launched and are in stores, that have been sold or are in inventory, will not be affected or will have any kind of problem with Google services (Google Play and the measures of security of Google Play Protect), "said La Estrella de Panamá, a source from the Huawei Panama Office.

In that sense, he asked his users to have 'calm and tranquility'. Those who have or acquire one of existing products, 'guaranteed' that they can continue to access the most popular Google services and applications: Google Play, YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, among others.

He also assured that 'they will be able to continue making the updates (of applications and services of Google) until after the three months of the expiration of the temporary license granted to them by the United States'.

In fact, the American Google also clarified that "Google Play services and security measures of Google Play Protect, will continue to work on existing Huawei devices."

He argued that in relation to the destination of the new products of the Chinese brand that have not been released to the market, "they do not have an official position", so it would be "irresponsible" to issue a comment.

On the plan B of Huawei, said that 'it has not been confirmed that it will launch an operating system', but did not deny that it has already been developed. "Huawei has 16 technology research centers around the world where it invests millions of dollars," he said.

However, the BBC said that information circulated that the new operating system is already being tested and would replace "gradually" Android (Google). And added that the name of it would be 'HongMeng OS', according to the website specializing in news of the technology, Huawei Central.

On May 16, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, included Huawei on a 'blacklist' of foreign companies considered dangerous to national security and banned the companies of his country to use their telecommunications equipment.

Hours later, the Bureau of Industries and Security of the United States (BIS) issued a general temporary license for Huawei and its 68 affiliates, for three months, which allows the Chinese brand to continue its operations. and services in the North American market.

As you may guess, this is a dispute between the two countries where the USA does things and China does things in retaliation and the tech war goes on. If google choice are forced to shut down on Huawei phones, Huawei phones will create patches so that the phone are not recognized as Huaweis. It is not that difficult and the patches will be available everywhere.

China has long been building their own operating system to replace android and have called it the HongMeng OS. More apps and better apps than Google. Right now Samsung in Japan is the largest maker of Smart Phones in the world. Huawei are number two in China, and Apple phones are number three in the world. Interestingly enough, Apple Phones are made in China. The USA wants Huawei to lose a lot of their market share with that market share picked up by Apple. China has lot of power in that decision making. It will be an interesting war and I can see that Huawei would be clear winners, but may settle with the United States for third spot to keep good relations and still maintain a strong business.

Kovalenko & Vera Attorneys at Law in Panama

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