The Financial Times on lobby efforts from Google to allow it to sell Android to Huawei without having to seek a license.
- pushing US officials to exempt it from a ban on exports to Huawei without a licence
Google's (motivated) reasoning:
- Google concerned it would not be allowed to update its Android operating system on Huawei's smartphones
- argues would prompt the Chinese company to develop its own version of the software
- argues a Huawei-modified version of Android would be more susceptible to being hacked
- "... the US risks creating two kinds of Android operating system: the genuine version and a hybrid one. The hybrid one is likely to have more bugs in it than the Google one, and so could put Huawei phones more at risk of being hacked, not least by China."
FT is here for more, may be gated
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The chaps at Google didn't seem too fussed when they abandoned support for my Android phone - no updates for me after I had it for a couple of years. But I digress....
