Trump Ban Puts Huawei's Smartphone Plans in Jeopardy
- Chinese giant was pitching its own app store in Europe
- Google has to pull its services from future Huawei devices
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Huawei Technologies Co. made a pitch to app makers last year: Build software for a new Huawei app store outside China, and we’ll help you inside the world’s most populous nation.
China’s largest technology company told potential partners that by the end of 2018, it would have 50 million Europeans using its own app store, rather than Google’s, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News. Huawei also held talks with European wireless carriers about spreading this new app store even further, people involved in those talks said.