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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

An android phone cannot have "nothing to do with google" because android is literally made by Google.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

true but Huawei has this:

HarmonyOS NEXT (鸿蒙星河版) is Huawei's self-developed, pure operating system, marking a complete break from Android by dropping support for APKs and relying solely on native apps built with ArkUI/ArkCompiler

it still allows you to run APKs in a container like EasyAbroad or DroiTong though

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Chinese ROMs in China are just AOSP with Chinese customisation. There is no Google Play Services and some vendors like Huawei are using it to transition to their own OS like Harmony OS. They're not dependent on Google in China.