• hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Samsung couldn’t do it with tizen and now Huawei thinks they’re better? It’ll be another epic failure.

    • ByteMe@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      To be honest, they didn’t want to but they were banned from google and lost play services so they might drop android altogether

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      18 hours ago

      In China is easy. Once you give some millions to tencent/Alibaba/Baidu/bytedance (or having the government force them to do so) for porting their apps, it’s all a Chinese citizen needs.

      There are many apps that are actually “mini apps” (a WebView inside tencent WeChat)

      When you enter China you need to register with the customs using said “mini app” in WeChat

      90% of users exclusively use WeChat, alipay, Baidu, taobao, amaps, douyin (TikTok), xiaohongshu.

      Maybe some could find useful to also have Weibo and pinduoduo (temu malware) but the “must have” apps are really a handful, it’s not like in the west

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 day ago

      But they have the benefit of Chinese state support and a massive captive market (with revanchist, imperialist tendencies).

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        Exactly. The path for success is clear as there’s clear need and public investment to back it up.

    • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 hours ago

      Tizen was written from scratch. From what I understand HarmonyOS is Android… at least it was forked from Android. oh shit, I talked before reading… sorry for that! :-D