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| Google warns against installing its applications on Huawei devices |
After the U.S. government banned the company from working with Chinese hardware maker Huawei last year, Google released a new article to clarify the current situation with Huawei. The search giants make clear that there is still a lot of confusion about what is happening, and in particular, Google services prohibit all products offered by Huawei.
Tristan Ostrowski, chief legal officer of Android and Google Play Store wrote: "Google is prohibited from working with Huawei to develop new device models or to provide, download, or save their apps like Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google Play previous download into this on the device.
This message is addressed to the average consumer after the search giant received many questions about new Huawei devices, such as: for example, the introduction of new models or the introduction of previous models after May 16, 2019, and is now available, and applications that can be used in New regions of the world. These devices.
Google wants to provide clear advice to those who ask these important questions, especially advice on unofficial access to their applications on unauthenticated phones and tablets about utilities.
The company is concerned that ordinary users of new Huawei devices may want to access their known applications (such as YouTube), that unofficial sources of these downloads may be harmful and that ordinary users may not be aware of the risks involved.
This article contains the clearest comment from Google on Huawei problems as the company avoids believing that Huawei is a threat to U.S. national security and insists on it.
Ostrovsky wrote: "Our goal is to protect Google users on the millions of existing Huawei devices worldwide. We continue to work with Huawei in accordance with the law to provide our security updates and updates." Update apps to existing devices and we will do so as long as we allow it. ''
Huawei products released on or before May 16, 2019 may still receive these updates, but products to be launched in the future are not eligible because Google cannot perform security checks on these devices or indeed a detectable item when the Google Play Protect app enters the device .
Google warns owners of recent Huawei products not to download their software on unsupported devices, as the company does not guarantee that these applications are real or free from malware.
The blog says: Our applications do not run reliably because we do not allow these services to work on unapproved devices, because this could jeopardize security and the unofficial applications we have download pose a major risk in installing modified or tampered apps, which can affect Security. User safety is at risk.
Google tries to avoid the political aspect of the problem, but it desperately wants to prevent people from using unofficial channels to get their popular apps.
Ostrovsky ends the post by talking about using an Android device and saying: "To check if your device is supported, you need to open the Google Play Store app on your phone, then tap the menu and search for settings to indicate that the device is certified to protect Google Play.