huawei‘s phone sales slump to fifth place under U.S. sanctions.
According to the Financial Times on Feb. 23, Huawei’s smartphones cannot be preloaded with Google apps under U.S. government sanctions, which led to a 41 percent drop in sales in the fourth quarter of last year, pushing it to fifth place in the global rankings behind rivals Xiaomi and OPPO from the mainland.
This is the first Time since 2013 that Huawei has failed to rank among the world’s top four smartphone makers in terms of quarterly sales, the news source cited data from Goldner.
After Huawei was placed on the U.S. sanctions list, its mobile chips were cut off and it could not use Google’s Android operating system, with comments made at the time that the inability to use Android was tantamount to kicking Huawei smartphones out of the international market.
For the whole year of 2020, Huawei sales fell by nearly a quarter.
And CNBC cited international data information (IDC) experts, said that if Huawei wants to take a place in the international market in the future, it is vital to obtain Google’s services again.
CNBC 23 reported that Bryan Ma, vice president of device research at IDC, said that although Huawei has launched “Huawei Mobile Services” (HMS) and Hongmeng OS as an alternative to Google Mobile Services (GMS) and Android, Huawei’s cell phone sales may still face challenges in the international market.
According to Ma, “If Huawei wants to successfully sell its phones overseas, its phones will need to be equipped with suitable APPs, as these APPs are unlikely to land on the Honmon system. If Huawei wants to take its place in the international cell phone market, it is vital that it gets Google Action Services again. And Huawei also has to obtain the spare parts needed for cell phone manufacturing.”
A mainland self-publisher revealed that Huawei’s cell phone will install its own developed Honmeng system this year. But financial commentator Wang Jian said, Hongmeng system will not succeed, even if the Chinese Communist Party authorities ordered the mainland production of cell phone manufacturers to install the system, it will not succeed, on the one hand, mainland manufacturers may not obey the authorities’ orders, because the installation of Hongmeng system can only be sold for the mainland; In addition, the popular App to redevelop the product to adapt to the Hongmeng system, which is impossible to do, especially the international The APP is not likely to change for Hongmeng.
But according to the news of United News, after the test of overseas media came to the conclusion that Hongmeng system is just “another Android”.
Foreign media Ars Technica through the pipeline to try out the current Beta version of the Harmony system, but after in-depth study found that, although the function and name is different, the essence of this “Harmony OS” is still the Android10 with Huawei EMUi interface, and the official has made some core changes to it.
There is no Google Play ecosystem-related software in Huawei’s Harmony OS, just like any other cell phone the company has launched in China in the past, and a limited number of apps from Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other developers can still be found in the built-in App store.
Although Huawei launched its new phone, the Mate X2, on the 22nd, its executives said Huawei is facing a crisis of Food cuts due to a lack of chips.
According to TVBS News 23, affected by the lack of high-grade chips, Huawei’s flagship models released since last year, almost all of the phones are temporarily out of stock, even the latest launch of the Mate X2 is the same, the official pipeline almost can not grab. Huawei said at the conference, due to U.S. sanctions, resulting in a decline in sales of Huawei cell phones, causing great difficulties in business, before the chip problem is not resolved, Huawei cell phone shipments will only reduce, some media said Huawei will plan to reduce production by 60% this year, may only produce 80 million cell phones.
Last year, some commentators said that after Huawei’s stock of chips is exhausted, Huawei cell phones will be forced to stop production, and Huawei will slowly disappear from the cell phone market.
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