the ROME – All set to challenge Google and its apps store Play Store. Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, four of the largest chinese smartphone – are joining forces to create a platform which allows those who develop applications outside of China to publish its apps simultaneously on the stores of the four companies. It refers exclusively to Reuters on its website. The novelty is called Global Developer Service Alliance (Gdsa), and aims to make it easier for developers to bring the app to the edge of the devices of the four companies, which together hold 40% of the world sales of smartphones. According to the sources, the launch has been scheduled for march, but it is not clear whether it can suffer the impact of the coronavirus.
In China, where Google services are banned, users download applications from the stores Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, but in the other markets to dominate is the Google Play Store. The Gdsa could encourage developers to create apps for the stores of the 4 companies, and in this way challenge the dominant position of Google. The Gdsa “serves only to facilitate the upload of the applications on the part of the developers in the respective app store of Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo,” said Xiaomi in a note which does not mention Huawei and deny the challenge to Google: “there is no intent of competition between this service and Google Play Store”.
so Far the only company to have pushed out from China on the own app store – the App Gallery – is Huawei, that because of the ban of Donald Trump is no longer free to install the apps and Google services on the new smartphone. To grow the shop, Huawei in September last year announced investments of $ 1 billion (10 million of them in Italy) to provide incentives to developers on a global scale.
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