Android Advisor - UK (2019-06)

ISSUE 63 • ANDROID ADVISOR 93

FEATURE

serious problem. Huawei basically has three options

going forward:

• Keep the existing EMUI framework, but eliminate all
  tracesofGoogleinlieuofitsownappsandstore


• Partnerwitha third-partyappstoresuchasAptoide


• Build a completely new OS that isn’t based on
  Android

None of these choices is easy. As the second-

largest phone maker in the world (after Samsung),

Huawei makes dozens of different phones. A change

of this magnitude would require a dramatic rethinking

of just about every step of the process: design,

engineering, marketing, price, and more.

Huawei has several
paths in a post-Google
phone, but none of
them will be easy