[bubblethink]

That's because google and samsung need each other. So samsung gets a pass. They don't allow other manufacturers.

[izacus]

Huawei ships with their own app store on devices with Play Services as well. There's no restrictions for other manufacturers.

What other manufacturers can't do is fragment the ecosystem and prevent people from also using Play Store.

[bubblethink]

The epic lawsuit has quite a few details about google preventing manufacturers from installing epic software/epic store on devices.