Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist - source

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Source: Reuters

BUSINESS NEWS MAY 19, 2019 / 1:38 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist - source

Angela Moon
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought to blacklist around the world.

A Google spokesperson said the company is “complying with the order and reviewing the implications” without giving details.

The move could hobble Huawei’s smartphone business outside China as the tech giant will immediately lose access to updates to Google’s Android operating system. Future versions of Huawei smartphones that run on Android will also lose access to popular services including the Google Play Store and Gmail and YouTube apps.

“Huawei will only be able to use the public version of Android and will not be able to get access to proprietary apps and services from Google,” the source said.

The Trump administration on Thursday added Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist, immediately enacting restrictions that will make it extremely difficult for the company to do business with U.S. counterparts.

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1. Dammm this all.

We have three HTC phones in our household and are quite fond of them.

This is so screwed up.

Will/won't affect our current mobility.

CRAP!!

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2. HTC is not Huawei

HTC is a Taiwanese company, so "not china".

Huawei uses both Huawei and Honor as brands for phones. Generally high quality, low cost devices but apparently just another arm of the Chinese surveillance state.

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3. Whatsamatta with me. (Please don't answer that! 😆)

You are totally correct. And now that you have brought it to my recollection, thanx!

* the orange menace and his group of reptilicans have messed with my thinking ability.

When, o when, will it end?