With the trade embargo limiting any type of commercial partnership with Huawei, many companies have been losing revenue and, when we thought that only small and medium-sized companies suffered from this fact, Google comes and requests a license to resume negotiations with the Chinese giant.
The US government has been releasing such licenses for some time for companies to resume their business with Huawei. Now, after Microsoft has done that, we see Google also requesting the license to re-establish their partnership.
After Microsoft applied for the license and received approval from the US Department of Commerce, on February 24th we saw Huawei launch notebooks with Windows 10.
The big question is, will the US government grant the license? Now, just because Google applied for this license doesn't mean the government will just grant the license to them. The request may be denied for some reason or another. So nothing is certain yet.
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However, if this license is approved, Huawei will be able to work with Google again. And that means your smartphones will be able to use Google services once again.
As this is the biggest problem with their latest smartphones, like the HONOR View30 Pro, as it doesn't have Google services, many people outside the eastern market are not interested in the devices (although we have already seen that with just one app and two screen taps Google services work again).
I believe that the most important point at this point is to have a broader view of what really happens. What does this order mean for Huawei and Google?
It's simple, we see that such a license request made by Google demonstrates that the American company needs Huawei much more than the other way around. In the last year, we have seen Huawei under a trade embargo, surpass Apple in terms of smartphones sold worldwide and still establish its flag as the largest company in the segment when we talk about 5G technology and infrastructure.
After all, the Chinese market continues to buy its devices without any problem. So Huawei doesn't really need the US or the West. Huawei is among the five largest smartphone manufacturers in the world and, depending on the region analyzed, the company even appears ahead of Samsung.
This means that Huawei cannot and should not be ignored and Google knows it. Not having its services included in the Chinese giant's smartphones may now not be causing losses but it's certainly not making a profit.
So two things are clear, Google needs Huawei, and Huawei would probably be fine without Google. Especially now strengthening Huawei Mobile Services and its own app store.
But we'll see soon what the US government decides on the order and whether Google will resume its partnership with Huawei.
