The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android

However, to comply with a recent order from the U.S. government, Google pulled the Chinese tech company and smartphone manufacturer Huawei’s license to use the proprietary Google software that sits on top of Android. While Google gives off the impression that Android is open and available to everyone, these services represent a quiet control that the company doesn’t often enforce over its hardware partners — though, as it has now proven, it certainly can. For new phones, Huawei may be able to use the open-source version of Android, but it can’t be a Google partner.

Source: onezero.medium.com