Android maker confirms it is clamping down on Huawei.
Google has confirmed that it will cease allowing Huawei to use its version of Android, instead requiring the Chinese giant to rely on the Android Open Source Project if it wants to use the platform.
« For Huawei users’ questions regarding our steps to comply w/ the recent US government actions: We assure you while we are complying with all US gov’t requirements, services like Google Play & security from Google Play Protect will keep functioning on your existing Huawei device, » the Android Twitter account said on Monday.
Google Play Protect is a security service built into Google’s Play Store that scans apps in the store and on user devices.
While the details are scant, the tweet indicates that Google will not degrade the experience of phones already in use. Future Huawei phones will be without Google services.
Huawei has been said to be developing its own OS as a backup for an Android ban.
Given Huawei’s recent move into consumer laptops, it remains to be seen whether Microsoft will join Google in an operating system ban.
On Monday, the South China Morning Post reported that Lenovo had denied rumours it would stop supplying Huawei.
Last week, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declare a national emergency and ban US companies from buying, installing, or using foreign-made telecommunications equipment from companies that were owned, controlled, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries.
