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Huawei’s trade ban will cost the Chinese company about 20 percent of smartphone sales this year, according to forecasts.
And that’s without taking into account any impact on retail that the coronavirus epidemic could have.
Internal screenings made in January have been leaked by sources to The Information. This means that Huawei itself admits that the pursuit of sanctions by the U.S. government will seriously affect its market share – especially in Europe and other western countries.
By not offering Google services on its handsets, the company is clearly losing consumer interest in the devices that had previously elevated Huawei to second place in global smartphone sales.
Its performance in 2019 doesn’t seem to have been affected by the ban, but that’s because the older models were still on sale with Google services installed, says The Information.
Any other impact on sales caused by the coronavirus epidemic will become clearer in the coming months. It is also likely that he stings: “It’s a double blow,” admitted a Huawei manager who refused to be named.
What the report doesn’t say is how Huawei’s future plans to build its own app store and service ecosystem could improve performance across the board.
Some may even prefer devices that no longer depend as much on American tech giants.