Huawei has no choice but to continue fighting in the absurd battle that the US is maintaining against it and among the solutions that it has come up with is offering a lot (but a lot) of money to developers who decide to migrate their app from the Google Play Store to the Huawei App Gallery. This is your master plan.
A US veto on Huawei that still stands
Many of us hoped that the ban on Huawei imposed by the US It will not last that many months, however, we are in mid-January 2020 and the signing is still subject to the decision of Donald Trump. It is true that the United States and China have moved closer to each other in recent days, but the phone manufacturer continues to suffer from being included in a blacklist from which who knows when it will come out.
Its greatest victim to date has possibly been the phone Mate 30 (and its Pro version, of course) that could be said to have been practically stillborn despite being for many the best phone, at the hardware level, of 2019. Yes, with some tricks and fiddling it is possible to get the phone practically ready, but It does not stop demanding a level of knowledge and involvement on the part of the owner of the phone that not all users have -or are willing to do so.
New Developer Program
Putting things like this, Huawei has been forced to find other ways to counter this situation and has created a new program for developers in which it has invested a whopping 20 million pounds. At the moment the initiative was announced in the last Huawei Developer Day held in London and covers developers from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The idea is pay 20 thousand pounds (which amounts to about 23.000 euros) to any developer who migrates his application (available in the Google Play Store) to the Huawei application store (the App Gallery). The idea, therefore, is to motivate app creators to give Huawei Mobile Services a chance and a catalog as small as that of the Chinese firm's store. In normal situations, doing so would imply a great effort to obtain practically no benefits (who uses the App Gallery?), so the company has come up with a fairly generous reward to motivate developers.
Huawei will invest £20 million in 2020 to support developers in the UK & Ireland. It is offering £20K to developers who migrate their apps to Huawei App Store by the end of January #HuaweiDeveloperDay pic.twitter.com/dHrbJnKtSu
- Francisco Jeronimo (@fjeronimo) January 16, 2020
And it is useless to try to sell phones without Google services to the user if a similar deployment of tools and solutions in the terminal cannot be guaranteed.
So that the subject does not take too long and people get their batteries, Huawei has also established a deadline of the program: end of this same month of January. Why so rush? Well, because March is just around the corner and the house has already confirmed that it will be then when it will reveal its new terminal, the long-awaited P40, which means the most important smartphone of the year for the company, neither more nor less.