The good news is that Huawei is definitely persuading some names to come across to App Gallery. What apps are available on Huawei's App Gallery? There has been a huge acceleration of Huawei's existing long-term strategy to establish its own app store outside of China.

Huawei's ethos seems to have shifted since then though. That puts Huawei in quite a unique position - unlike Microsoft, Samsung and others who have tried and miserably failed to create rival app stores, it isn't starting on the back foot.Īt the beginning of this journey, Huawei chief Richard Yu told us at the Mate 30 launch in September 2019 that the phone maker would skip back to Google overnight should the trade ban be lifted. Its entire layout is focused on browsing, rather than searching and that has seen developer registrations - particularly for games - grow massively. The entire design of the store is massively different to Google Play too, with Huawei putting time and effort into editorial suggestions and discovery, which helps highlight games and popular apps for the region the store's being browsed in.

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In total, App Gallery is available in over 170 countries already, across 78 languages. If you have a Huawei phone in China, you've long-used App Gallery backed with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). Such a big userbase is possible because Google services aren't pervasive in China like they are in the US and Europe. Can App Gallery be a success in the UK and Europe?Īs you'll hear, Huawei's App Gallery is quite different from Google's Play Store in terms of what it offers but it's no fledgeling - the store has more than 580 million active users that return to the store every month, with 42 countries having more than 1 million users.

The trade ban has had a knock-on effect for large US companies including Google, which is losing revenue - despite Microsoft seemingly being given carte blanche to keep selling Windows to the company, as seen with the Huawei MateBook X Pro. In the UK this manifest itself in a full ban on Huawei 5G networking gear that comes into play from 2027. The background to this is that it doesn't want Huawei's well-priced and well-used network gear being rolled out and has banned Huawei from using any US technologies. The previous US administration made no secret of its distrust of basically anything Chinese and has barred US companies from dealing with Huawei - a trade ban. The situation is not of Huawei's own making. Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Nintendo Switch.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Xbox Console.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Google Nest.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Amazon Echo Devices.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Fire TV Stick.

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