Loss of Google apps didn't hit that hard in South Africa, says Huawei | Fin24

The loss of access to Google services on Huawei phones had a smaller impact in the South African market than elsewhere in the world, with the company growing its market share despite a trade ban.

He said the removal of Google Play had initially impacted the consumer perception in the early stages of the ban in 2019, but they had to embark on an education drive about the changes as they responded to the challenge with the in-house invention, the Huawei AppGallery. Data by research group Statista in May showed that Huawei held 24% of the mobile device vendor market share in South Africa, placing it second after Samsung, while Apple came third. As recently as 2018, Huawei’s market share was below 15%.But in the three months to end-June this year, its revenue edged up by 1% to 170.6 billion yuan . Bloomberg noted that the company recorded its first sales growth since the US sanctions.

Fin24 Huawei is far better than apple

Fin24 sanctions are firing back

Fin24 People got conned here. I know many people are infuriated with their phones.

Fin24 Weird I havent been able to access google with my samsung or my iphone.

Fin24 The west lost their battle to contain the east. Just pathetic to watch at this point.

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