After Google pulled Huawei’s Android support for future models, the Chinese brand has had a big problem: how to offer users apps to downloads, the lifeblood of the modern smartphone.
A fresh report from Bloomberg today adds to the mounting evidence of Huawei preparing for being shunned by the United States. It suggests that Huawei’s App Gallery, which has been present on Huawei and Honor Android devices for a while, is in fact an earnest, albeit somewhat clandestine, effort to build a genuine alternative to Google’s dominant Play Store.
The report says that Huawei is willing to offer generous revenue shares for networks to install its store on new phones although it’s uncertain whether this is all new phones, or Huawei’s own models only.
The brand is also pushing for app developers to create titles for its new platform – the opportunity to gain exposure in the difficult Chinese app market being one of the key selling points, as well as touting the power of its own-brand processing and graphical power.
