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by IceWreck 310 days ago
Huawei and Honor are seperate app stores?

And Oppo and Vivo too?

In both instances one company owns the other - why have competing app stores?

1 comments

Because some dumbass decided to ban Huawei before, forcing Chinese brands to split itself to multiple sub brandings that operate independently.
Huawei was banned because some dumbass at Huawei decided that sanction skirting was worth it