Many customers affectedHuawei sold nearly 203 million phones last year, up from 150 million in 2017, according to data tracking firm Gartner, overtaking Apple to threaten Samsung atop the global charts. Those users risk losing access to important upgrades to Android released by Google in future, although for now Huawei said it would continue to provide security updates. No easy fix for HuaweiTo get around the Google ban, Huawei would ultimately have to build its own operating system, as Apple has for its iPhones. Between 2010 and 2017, the US company tried to entice users to buy phones built on its own Windows mobile operating system. But in cutting off Huawei, Google risks being deprived of the revenue-generating data of all those phone owners around the world.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 20, 2019 14:00 UTC