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posted by chromas on Monday May 20 2019, @05:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the Tit-for-tat dept.

The Verge has a story about the latest in the US government's war against Huawei:

Following the US crackdown on Chinese technology companies, Google has cut off Huawei’s Android license, dealing a huge blow to the besieged phonemaker. Reuters first reported the news, and The Verge subsequently confirmed Google’s suspension of business with Huawei with a source familiar with the matter.

Reached for comment, a Google spokesperson said only “We are complying with the order and reviewing the implications.” The order, in this case, appears to be the US Commerce Department’s recent decision to place Huawei on the “Entity List,” which as Reuters reports is a list of companies that are unable to buy technology from US companies without government approval.

Speaking to Reuters, a Google spokesperson confirmed that “Google Play and the security protections from Google Play Protect will continue to function on existing Huawei devices.” So while existing Huawei phones around the world won’t be immediately impacted by the decision, the future of updates for those phones as well as any new phones Huawei would produce remains in question.

Huawei is now restricted to using the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), cutting the company off from critical Google apps and services that consumers outside of China expect on Android devices. That also means Huawei will only be able to push security updates for Android once they’re made available in AOSP, assuming the company uses its own update system. It’s not clear yet how this will affect the full range of Android integrations that Huawei depends on, but we will update this story when we receive additional clarification about the impacts of Google’s decision.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Monday May 20 2019, @08:55PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday May 20 2019, @08:55PM (#845637) Journal

    Trump is either a genius or an accelerationist. What I don't compute is why the same elite first let everybody outsource to china then starts pissing them off. This is something bigger than Trump and his administration and his counselors.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @11:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @11:01PM (#845664)

    R.A.W. pointed this out in his classic Schroedinger's Cat trilogy. Middle paragraph is the one that explains it.

    These were very cunning old primates in several of the most skillful predator bands on Terra. Because of the stealth and skill of these bands - made up of successful predator families that had been intermarrying for several generations - they collectively owned 99.4 percent of all the territory and resources of Unistat.

    The Revolution of Rising Expectations annoyed them even more, because it led many primates to argue that the reason poverty and starvation still continued in an advanced technological society was that Somebody Was Getting More Than Their Share. Whenever anybody asked who that Somebody might be, all eyes turned on these royal old primate males who owned so much. The eyes were not friendly. Sometimes, in far-off lands where these royal primates did not completely control the governments, some of their boodle was actually seized and redistributed to the people they had stolen it from. As Rising Expectations had mounted in the first half of the century, this regrettable pattern of expropriation also escalated.

    The alpha males of these tough old predator families did not like this at all. They therefore invested a prudent sum in promoting the careers of everybody who preached Lowered Expectations, from Ralph Nader and the Club of Rome to Oriental gurus and the neo-Stoics of the post-Marxist Left. When Furbish Lousewart came along, they invested in him, too-enough to buy the election for him.