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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by NicoJuicy on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:15PM (#20003024)
Uh, so an app store without:

Netflix, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Gmail, Outlook, Chromecast, Dropbox, OneDrive, YouTube, Twitter, Google search ( or duck duck go), Amazon, Amazon video, 2fa authenticator, iftt, Wikipedia, Skype, messenger, Snapchat, Instagram, Waze, Google maps, Ted, Wolfram Alpha, ... I'm pretty sure there is one of them that you use recurringly.

You're going to use that OS?

The only Chinese app I use is eWelink and I really want to flash that device to be more flexible and dump it.

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by worble on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:26PM (#20003118)
Most of those have functioning websites you know? All you'd need is a half decent browser.
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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by ptx on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:12PM (#20004876)
You don't need apps for Google search, Wikipedia or Amazon, and I don't think this ban is going to extend to blocking websites for western consumers using Huawei devices.

The others I don't use, so it would be OK for me.

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by NicoJuicy on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:49PM (#20005974)
Eg: Google is paying for being the default search-engine.

So Baidu will be the default search engine on any browser that will be used ( since they can pay).

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by JohnFen on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:15PM (#20003513)
> You're going to use that OS?

I would. Nothing in that list is indispensable to me.

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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by pjmlp on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:50PM (#20003330)
Not everyone uses them.
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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by NicoJuicy on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:47PM (#20005965)
Not all of them, some of them :) I'm just pointing out the "most regular used"
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