It has been one year since the Trump administration put Chinese giant Huawei on Entity List through executive order citing national security risk, effectively banning the company from doing business with any of the US-based company without explicit permission.
This is the reason Huawei cannot using Google‘s apps and services in its new smartphones. And is seems that this will be the case for at least another year as Donald Trump, President of the United States, has extended the ban on Huawei till May 2021.
Although Huawei has been barred from doing business with the US-based companies, the U.S. Commerce Department has issued a series of temporary licenses allowing U.S. companies to keep doing business with the company. That license is about to expire this week and it is expected to get renewed.
Since getting banned from using Google’s Android as well as the company’s app and services, Huawei has launched several smartphones, including two flagship phones, without support for GMS. This has hit the company’s sales outside of the Chinese market.
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However, the Chinese giant launched its own operating system named HarmonyOS and has developed its own Huawei Mobile Services meant as a replacement for Google Mobile Services. The company also plans to spend billions of dollars to incentivise developers to make apps for its ecosystem.
While the company is trailing in terms of smartphones sales in the Western market, it is performing quite well in its home market China. Huawei now seems to be working on reducing its reliance on third-party suppliers.
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