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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by Mikeb85 on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:18AM (#20896402)
Are there EU sanctions against Huawei? Because the US lifted the ban on US companies selling to Huawei before it really came into effect.
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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by stefan_ on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:34AM (#20896552)
The Mate 30 will not have Google services:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-alphabet-idUS...

Google, as a US company, can't license (=sell) to Huawei. EU never enters into it.

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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by chvid on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:50AM (#20896709)
If Huawei can make a set of comparable cloud services (app store, push notifications, maps ...) that runs in the eu under eu law. Then that coupled with the high end hardware they are obviously capable of making would make a very compelling package for an European audience.

This may not be obvious to an American observer but the mistrust of American big tech is quite widespread in certain parts of Europe.

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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by CountSessine on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:34PM (#20897731)
If Huawei can make a set of comparable cloud services (app store, push notifications, maps ...)

Oh, is that all they need to do? History has shown that most hardware companies are really good at writing software, so they should have this in the bag.

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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by londons_explore on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:07PM (#20897453)
> If Huawei can make a set of comparable cloud services...

Lack of YouTube, Google Maps, and GMail will kill it for 90 percent of users.

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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by rstuart4133 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @09:10AM (#20910364)
GMail supports SMTP an IMAP access, so they won't lack GMail. Youtube supports web access which frankly is better than the Google App because it doesn't nag you all the time. Google Maps up until recently was just another navigation app which are a dime a dozen. (For a while there it wasn't a particularly good navigation app, but they've really pick up their game recently.) I have no doubt can build replacements for them all.

But all those apps in the app store - that's a problem. Google's lead in speech recognition - that's a problem. Google pay - that's a problem, particularly as the app store is tied into it. Google's lead in image processing and cameras - that's a problem. Google's amazing ability to translate languages - that's a problem.

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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by jessaustin on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:24PM (#20897015)
"Mistrust of American big tech" is not unknown in USA either.
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Re:Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC App... by Mikeb85 on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:58AM (#20896802)
Gotcha. The whole blacklist thing is confusing AF, especially with Huawei being given several reprieves...
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