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Re:Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspens... by cobookman on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:35AM (#19981608)
They can create an app store on Android. Nobody is stopping them.

The same can't be said for ios

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Re:Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspens... by eridan2 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:14PM (#19983235)
They can create an Android Store. But many apps depends on Google APIs or applications (Maps, Drive, Contacts, etc) and will require changes.
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Re:Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspens... by benatkin on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:48AM (#19981758)
Huawei could make a UI toolkit similar to iOS, and use the Swift open source project, and encourage developers to port their iOS apps.
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Re:Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspens... by throwayEngineer on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:59AM (#19981910)
This seems like an expensive risky overkill to trust Apple, when JavaScript solutions work on every platform.
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