Does Huawei really have a Google alternative that it is about to unleash? It seems we may be about to find out. One of the company’s execs has reportedly claimed that replacements for Google apps, including mail, messaging, maps and payments, as well as key underlying services will be ready soon. This follows other claims last week that the forthcoming flagship, the P40, which is due to launch in March, will ship with the company’s Google replacement services onboard. Nothing is yet confirmed, but speculation is rife ahead of the company’s 2020 product launches.
The latest claims come from Huawei’s consumer head in India, Charles Peng, who was quoted in the country’s Economic Times on December 24 saying that "we have our own HMS and are trying to build a mobile ecosystem. Most of the key apps, such as navigation, payments, gaming and messaging will be ready soon.” Originally, the article suggested this might mean as soon as the end of December—this seemed overly optimistic and was corrected. Peng’s reported claim that “consumers won't see a difference between GMS and HMS,” remains optimistic. Google Mobile Services is the licensed software that turns open source Android into the full-fat variant. HMS is Huawei’s alternative.
According to the Economic Times, Huawei, along with its sister brand Honor, has engaged with India’s app developers to splash cash from its $1 billion fighting fund to morph Google apps onto the HMS equivalent. “We are focusing on how to work with developers to offer a good customer experience,” Peng said. “It is a challenge that we are trying to address.” That challenge cannot be understated. Shifting regular apps to a new platform is one thing—a question of scale, but replacing native access to Gmail, YouTube, Google Pay and Google Drive is another.
Peng was also reported to say that the vast Indian developer base—alongside Chinese equivalents—will help the company deliver its HMS alternative in other regions as well, including Europe. “In every country,” Peng told the Economic Times, “we will focus on bringing the top 100-150 apps to customers through HMS—we will create an end-to-end business model with developers, content and service providers.”
This is a key test for Huawei. The lack of Google has become the poster child for U.S. sanctions against the company, and without a viable alternative it cannot compete in the international (non-Chinese) market where consumers expect the full Android experience. A week ago, Huawei’s global smartphone head, Richard Yu, told French media that the new P40 will launch in at the end of March. The exec also said that the P40 will succeed without Google, it will fill the Google-shaped gap with its in-house alternative. According to the French media reports, this meant Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) would be ready and onboard.
What exactly this all means—including the intriguing “most apps” as articulated by Peng and a lack of specifics from Yu—we will find out in the next few weeks. Shortly after the blacklist hit in May, Yu promised the launch of an in-house Huawei operating system for the company’s smartphones—either late this year or early next. The new OS would run Google apps, only faster. Nothing of the sort has happened as yet. And then when the Mate 30 launched in September, Yu told the media there would be a semi-official workaround for Google. Again, nothing. Third time lucky, maybe.
On the assumption that Huawei’s Google alternative is available in the next few weeks, then the real battle begins—to persuade millions of consumers to make the switch. According to reports on internal sales numbers, Huawei has seen growth tail off in the all-important holiday fourth-quarter. It will struggle to maintain its smartphone sales trajectory if it follows the Mate 30 with another flagship product launch that fails to successfully answer the Google question. A worse result, though, will be launching a solution and finding that it falls flat. No easy options for the comp

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Ok

Nothing last forever where is java,symbian,lumia,blackberry OS today

The gaps and the all round adaptation between google's service and its OS and theirs will be so long and tough

Hope they follow the open-source trend cos i cant use a phone that i cant tweak, never!

Quote me when this reach fp

honor is a powerful phone. when honor enters Africa there is nothing like iPhone or Samsung

This write up make is seem as if Google will be helpless

I hope they are not trying to replace Android too?
All what they can do is create a monopoly market like Apple ....I hope they succeed
Besides Android is Open source ....
Let wait and see how they top that

Happy Boxing Day

Cant wait to switch fully from west to East

Let's see how this plays out

CANDYDADDY:
Nothing last forever where is java,symbian,lumia,blackberry OS today

The gaps and the all round adaptation between google's service and its OS and theirs will be so long and tough

Hope they follow the open-source trend cos i cant use a phone that i cant tweak, never!

But Google seems to be a baller in the league, till date no one has been able to come out and out smart them......

I wish they could also add Google AdSense strong alternative

This will be interesting


It hurts to come from a race whose major contribution to the world is crude oil, terrorism, tribalism and political thuggery while the rest of the world grow in STEM + economy

Good

Okk let us watch

when it comes to privacy Google is a son of a bitch, they keep tabs on everything you do on your phone, calls, text, email and any godammn thing you do, Android users will know what I mean. there Is no privacy on Google they have all your browsing history, they are perverts, they intrude into people's privacy.

I just hope these guys, huawei will give google a run for their money , hope they won't be from frying pan to the fire.

profilemessages:
when it comes to privacy Google is a son of a bitch, they keep tabs on everything you do on your phone, calls, text, email and any godammn thing you do, Android users will know what I mean. there Is no privacy on Google they have all your browsing history, they are perverts, they intrude into people's privacy.

I just hope these guys, huawei will give google a run for their money , hope they won't be from frying pan to the fire.

Privacy is a joke, even Huawei isn't a Saint in that arena. Just don't do anything incriminating, and you won't have to worry about privacy..

If they wanna keep tabs on all the porn sites I visit, they are free. I care less..

LMAO on the porn comment. the correct answer is we (all the men) care less

If Google has no privacy, hauwei will be times4.
u think Chinese are called intellectual thieves for nothing.

HenryDion:


Privacy is a joke, even Huawei isn't a Saint in that arena. Just don't do anything incriminating, and you won't have to worry about privacy..

If they wanna keep tabs on all the porn sites I visit, they are free. I care less..

Hauwei should stop making noise and give us a better alternative

Before hauwai finish Google go just buy them. Shikena.

Nothing them no fit buy

James39:
Before hauwai finish Google go just buy them. Shikena.

Nothing them no fit buy

abi

Probably chock full of spyware, malware and pro-China censorship bots. No porting for me.

wildlife9999:
honor is a powerful phone. when honor enters Africa there is nothing like iPhone or Samsung

Be deceiving yourself

Stop making mouth, just do it.

OK Huawei. They've really hyped their new OS saying it's better than android. Let's see how it goes.

Lol this ones wan drown with arrogance like nokia.

Google should hurry up and release their Fuschia OS. I'm tired of chinko brats and bragging

oodua1stson:
Lol this ones wan drown with arrogance like nokia.

Their mobile aspect may drown but Huawei can never drown, they own 5G technology, they literally control internet devices market from modems to routers, search Google for proof.

Nearly does not kill a bird sha

Couzy21:


Their mobile aspect may drown but Huawei can never drown, they own 5G technology, they literally control internet devices market from modems to routers, search Google for proof.

you're right about that. My point is that the future of any mobile O.S rests with app developers and as it is right now they are too invested in the iOS and Android to now dive into an uncertain water and I dont see Huawei investing billions into pushing the O.S through marketing or app development