• mtchristo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They still can't sell their phones outside of China. Cause they don't have access to google play services.

    Otherwise its still a considerable achievement as those chips can be sold to other Chinese phone manufacturers

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I'm sorry why do you think this?

      Xiaomi has 11% of globalk market share up from 4% in 2018? Apple has 33% global share for reference.

      Oppo, Vivo and Huawei share another 14% between them. Bringing China's market share in the global phone market up to 25%.

      People don't give a shit about whether it has Google Play or not. It has an appstore with content on it, they're fine with it as long as they have access to other apps that do what they want.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      lmao there are literally Huawei phones for sale in my country, what are you talking about?

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      They are still sold in Germany, however the OS is a clone of Android without any Google services. From my observing at the... electronics store phone display, you can download these apps pretty easily from the inbuilt app store.