recently it was met nine months since the United States decided to include Huawei on the blacklist of the Department of Commerce, making the company lose access to Google services and thus the ability to install your applications (at the least officially) in its terminals. Today, however, there has been an interesting plot twist: according to Reuters, the big heavy Chinese pesos telephony -Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo – have teamed up to create an alternative to Google Play, the app store Google.
The grand alliance has been dubbed the Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA) and aims to create a platform to “facilitate l development of games, music, movies and other applications that can take abroad”, reports Reuters.
In other words: these manufacturers are looking for a way to unify their different application stores – it must be remembered that in China the Play Store does not work due to government restrictions, so each manufacturer has its own store – to facilitate the work of developers and thus increase their influence until they can rival the Google Play Store globally.
These four manufacturers account for 40% of global smartphone sales, so the potential reach of this alliance is not a trivial thing. Over time we will know more details about this curious association, but for now, what we do know, is that Google has reason to worry.