Huawei’s ever-expanding App store, the AppGallery has a new addition today – Bolt. The emerging ride-hailing app in Europe is often considered as a cheaper alternative to Uber especially in cities like London. And with this addition, Huawei users finally have a popular ride-hailing service on its own app store.
Bolt’s presence on the Huawei AppGallery is a win-win for both the companies. Despite the US ban, Huawei is still the third-largest smartphone maker in Europe with a solid 18% market share. However, until today, AppGallery lacked a popular ride-hailing app like Uber. Technically, you could get the missing apps via third-party app stores like APKPure and Amazon App Store for Android. But now, Bolt fills this void without the need to download any other app store.
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Bolt has been gaining a lot of attention in the past few months. In fact, in June 2020, it was voted as the Hottest Unicorn in Europe! The startup recently raised €100 million from Naya Capital Management which it will use to expand its ride-hailing, e-scooter, and even food delivery businesses.
Huawei has managed to add a number of important apps to its AppGallery this year. You’ll find popular apps in multiple categories like Deezer, TIDAL, MX Player, RT, UKTVPlay, Eurosport, Premier League in media and entertainment and Viber, Telegram, TikTok, Tinder, Zoom, Badoo in social. And as of March 2020, Huawei has already integrated over 60,000 apps with HMS Core.
With no signs of respite from the ban, it makes sense for Huawei to invest heavily in its own products like the AppGallery. In this regard, the company recently launched the HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest – with an award pool of USD$1 Million Prize.
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