During the past 24 hours, the Internet and the technical medium were filled with talk about Google's decision to ban dealing with Huawei and withdraw its Android licenses, and many news and rumors spread. Today, several American companies announced entering the line and declaring war on Huawei. So what happened and what is its impact on the markets?


What does Google's decision to stop cooperating with Huawei mean?

Google officially announced the suspension of technical cooperation with Huawei and the withdrawal of the company's licenses for Android. To clarify this decision, it does not mean that Huawei devices will not be issued with the Android system, as Android is an open source system, and any party in the world has the right to use it even if Apple itself has the right to provide Android devices. Thus, Huawei can release Android devices now, tomorrow, year after, and at any time.

But the hitch is Google services as they are not open source. In other words, Android devices will be issued without the Play Store, the Chrome browser, Google Maps, the official Gmail, the official YouTube application, and other Google services. Although this is not a decisive prevention, because you can add the above to the phone as most of those who buy Amazon Kindle Fire devices do, but the official is that it will be issued without the above and the majority of users will not be able to do the addition steps, and thus Huawei devices for them will become a failure.


What about updates? Do you also stop?

Huawei has released an official statement stating that it will continue to update and develop devices. But to clarify, the updates are currently taking place in cooperation with Google, meaning that companies send requests, tips and notes to Google, and the companies submit them in the updates. And we saw when Samsung announced its foldable phone, that it talked about cooperation with Google to provide exclusive benefits for this type of device. Google announced that it had stopped cooperation with Huawei. What will happen now is that Google will issue an update for either the system or the security update and Huawei will get it like any other party and adapt it for its devices. It cannot write to Google about any updates, fixes, or crashes.


What about current devices?

Google explained in an official statement that the current Android devices from Huawei will continue to work and can use maps, software store and other traditional features. But future Huawei devices will not be able to access the store and Google services. This was confirmed by an official statement from Huawei as well. To clarify, if you buy a Huawei phone that is available now at the seller, it will work. But any phone issued in the future from Huawei will not have Google services, and this is what Huawei's statement made clear that it is committed to updating the current devices as well as those in its stores.


Why does Huawei not develop its own system?

There is a constant perception among many users that the main obstacle is in the operating system; Far from the fact that the systems need long periods and years of work, the problem is not in the system because any operating system wants applications. If we assume that Huawei today revealed a system called Hui, for example, and issued a phone with it; Will you find the applications you use in it? How about your bank app? What would make the bank support this Hui system and assign developers? Where are the developers in the first place who worked with this system, and why are they leaving iOS and Android to work with the new system? Microsoft spent billions to run Windows and failed, and Samsung spends huge sums of the Taizen system, and has not yet succeeded in deploying it. So, in order for the user to buy the phone, he must find the applications they want. And the developer will not add applications and work to provide them for a system that does not have clients. That is, it is a dilemma (the egg first or the chicken). It is not impossible, but it is very difficult and failed giants, the most famous of them as we mentioned Microsoft.


Are there other penalties?

Hours ago, a group of American companies announced that they would stop cooperating with Qualcomm and stop supplying them with products, on top of these companies Qualcomm, which is the largest company that manufactures processor and communications chips in the world and on which Huawei relies on processors and chips of the middle class for its phones. As well as Intel, the pioneer of computer processors that Huawei relies on for its computer processors. As well as Broadcom, which is a pioneer in the field of communication chips in computers, meaning that it is similar to Qualcomm, but in the field of computers more. By the way, it is the company that would have bought Qualcomm, but Trump stopped the deal. Germany's Infineon has also announced that it has joined the ban. Hours ago, the American companies that developed memory chips, such as Micron, the leading company and supplier of NAND memory chips in some iPhone devices, announced that they would stop supplying Huawei devices. Finally, WD, the storage giant and owner of several brands, including Sandisk, also announced the suspension of cooperation with Huawei.


Will Huawei stand idly by?

Of course, it is inconceivable that the second largest telephone company in the world will stand idly by in the face of a series of penalties in this way, but so far there has been no statement or clarification of what will happen. There are obstacles that have temporary solutions, for example, Android is already working for users and we can update it. Huawei may buy from Samsung what was prevented from American companies, but there are serious obstacles such as Intel, for example, the only alternative in the market is AMD, but it is also an American company, and if it issued a decision to prevent cooperation, this means that Huawei closes its computer sector, the computers must be the processor either Intel Or AMD otherwise it will not work. With regard to processors, Huawei manufactures most of its own chipset and processors, but it is said (not confirmed) that it has signed a licensing and right-of-use agreement for some of Qualcomm's patents. Now this matter has stopped and it cannot manufacture more, and if it undertakes the industrialization step, then Huawei will face a legal war in the whole world from Qualcomm; Huawei must remember what happened to Apple when it violated Qualcomm's patents.


Why this war?

It sounds strange, but it is a round in the conflict and the US-Chinese economic war, and now Trump wants to attack the largest Chinese technology company, Huawei. And for those who do not know Huawei is a company that is not completely private, the Chinese government has a large stake in it, and the founder of Huawei is a former officer who served for more than 20 years in the Chinese army as a technical expert and after leaving the army, he founded Huawei and there are several criticisms from governments such as India, America and others that he is a collaborator with Chinese intelligence. Coincidentally, recent reports revealed that the communications networks that Huawei sold to Vodafone several years ago had security flaws that could spy on citizens in several European countries. Vodafone recognized this vulnerability, but said that Huawei did not exploit it and that it closed the vulnerability a year after its existence and denied that it posed any danger to Any user in Italy or any country in which the devices are located. His founding son was arrested several months ago on charges of seizing American technology and some other charges.


What about us we are?

We know that this question needs a comprehensive answer, which is what about us? How will the US-China economic war affect us. We are mainly Apple users, not Google or Huawei. But this matter needs to be answered in another detailed article explaining the dimensions of this war and its impact on us, Apple and our favorite devices.

What do you think of the US war against Huawei? Do you expect that the Chinese company will find a solution to this total war?

Sources:

the verge | nikkei | XDA | the verge | with the BBC

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