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EU leaders: We won't follow Trump's Huawei ban

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      Chrozera
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      While that might be true, if the phones stop getting updates European customers with Huawei phones are still fucked. No Matter that Europe still does business with Huawei, and I don't see a...

      While that might be true, if the phones stop getting updates European customers with Huawei phones are still fucked. No Matter that Europe still does business with Huawei, and I don't see a European version of android appearing in the coming few months before the updates stop.

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        KapteinB
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        It's not Android, but we do have one pretty good European smartphone operating system. It would be pretty great to see one of the world's biggest smartphone brands embrace it.

        It's not Android, but we do have one pretty good European smartphone operating system. It would be pretty great to see one of the world's biggest smartphone brands embrace it.

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          Chrozera
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          That seems interesting but how is 3rd party app support? Because I'm still convinced that that was the death of windows phone.

          That seems interesting but how is 3rd party app support?
          Because I'm still convinced that that was the death of windows phone.

          1. KapteinB
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            The native app landscape is pretty barren, as expected. There's an Android virtual machine available named Alien Dalvik, which allows most Android apps to run on Sailfish, but due to licensing...

            The native app landscape is pretty barren, as expected. There's an Android virtual machine available named Alien Dalvik, which allows most Android apps to run on Sailfish, but due to licensing costs it's not included in the community version of the OS. If Huawei decides to go the Sailfish route, they'd probably have to negotiate with the makers of Alien Dalvik if they want to use it on their phones.