Facebook is preventing Huawei from pre-installing its apps

Facebook no longer allows Huawei to pre-install its apps on smartphones. After the trade ban, this is the latest example of technology companies severing relations with the telecom giant. However, Huawei mobile phone users can still download and use programs such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook main apps, and they will continue to receive updates through the Play Store. Just saying that Huawei will not be able to pre-install them on the system.

Unlike Facebook, Google has received a temporary license to continue to send security updates to existing Huawei phones. Currently, Google services or unreleased mobile phones that include the Play Store will still pre-install Google services, while Facebook directly refuses to pre-install “any phone which has not yet left the factory.”

These effects are not necessarily as worrying as Huawei’s and Google’s and ARM’s decisions, which limit their ability to use core Android services and develop their own chips. But Facebook’s move provides another potential way for Huawei to provide customers with critical third-party applications.

Source: Reuters