A repeat would be a serious setback for any Huawei aspirations to shore up smartphone sales this year. According to Huawei, the real plan to beat the Google ban goes beyond tweaks to existing devices. Some welcome news, then, for Huawei with the announcement that Tom Tom, the Dutch digital mapping company, was signed up to provide mapping, location and navigation services for HMS. Make no mistake, despite the relatively dry reporting of the technicalities of the Meng extradition case, this is deeply personal. Despite the smartphone and Google headlines, this is the real fight.

Source: Forbes January 18, 2020 23:37 UTC