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Following the Trump administration鈥檚 decision to blacklist Huawei, effectively banning U.S. companies from working with the Chinese tech giant, U.S. chipmakers Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom to the company headquartered in Shenzhen. The most significant blow to Huawei came from Google however, who revoked the company鈥檚 Android license and suspended any business that requires the transfer of hardware, software or technical services, in compliance with Trump鈥檚 .

Google鈥檚 decision marks a significant setback to Huawei鈥檚 smartphone ambitions, as it immediately bans the company from receiving future Android updates and using Google鈥檚 proprietary apps. While Huawei cannot be banned from using the open source version of Android to build its own operating system based on Android code, the lack of access to Google鈥檚 Play Store and its popular line of apps (incl. YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps among others) would severely limit the appeal of Huawei devices, especially for customers outside of China, where most of Google鈥檚 services are banned anyway.

Having overtaken Apple as the world鈥檚 second largest smartphone vendor in the first quarter of 2019, Huawei鈥檚 rise in the smartphone market has been nothing short of impressive. According to , the company sold more than 200 million smartphones in 2018, accounting for 13 percent of global sales. Aside from its market leading position in China and large parts of Asia, Huawei has become one of the in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East in recent years, though it has never made a breakthrough in the United States.