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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by usrusr on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:35AM (#35601359)
Look how well Huawei smartphones are selling in the west (not well at all). And that's not because of lack of trying, I've been on a team where everybody agreed that supporting their phones had zero upside outside of the cash Huawei offered for a port of our apps and we did it, because they paid so well. And those were laughably unattractive apps (think yellow pages), I can't even start to imagine what they must have spent in other directions.
Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by Andrex on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:35PM (#35603161)
Huawei was selling well in the west until the US Gov't blocked them.

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/25/ren-zhengfei-h...

Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by somsak2 on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:34PM (#35603880)
Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by wlesieutre on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:46PM (#35604049)
Because they used to have Google's play store and other services. Parent commenter's point is that a manufacturer having the open source parts of Android isn't necessarily worth much on its own.