Despite all said and done, Huawei is facing a problem, we all know that. No point blaming the staff for facing this critical issue now because they also have to try to contain the fall off.

Time will tell if within 3 months how many apps writer can join their platform, or convert the apps to make it compatible. They have dump in money only since 2 weeks ago, so expect some changes, although it may not be quick. Nonetheless, unlike Windows platform, there is existing market for the new huawei platform (china users), so lets wait and see.

This Google fiasco opened up our eyes and ears, as we all know that in critical time such as now, open platform like Google can be weaponised for political end. 'Critical' as in when America felt their dominant business position is being threatened, which, from the way it looks, will be the case for quite a long time to come.

It is therefore for end users like us to be smart enough NOT to be too dependent on American platform, be it Google ecosystem, or IOS. I am one of them too to be honest. But this experience really taught us not to be too dependent on American system from now on.

I will slowly wean myself off Google OS and its ecology, but not necessarily convert to Chinese made ones. Rather I would prefer other paid services from more independent provider, either European or other open platform. I have used Firefox for quite some time, with its Sync ability, it behave as good, if not better, than Chrome. I believe there are other equivalent apps too.

I think probably it depends on who you talk to and which age group. Huawei phone can be easily doubled as a camera, which happened to be a phone, and others. If you think like that, suddenly it opened up a huge possibility. You see, the issue of smartphone nowadays is the ability to combine lots of functions. I know many ppl knows that but somehow forgotten the fact that when iphone was introduced, Steve jobs specifically mentioned that he has camera, phone and internet devices combined as one.

The problem with engineering innovation is that, this Mate 30Pro can easily replace a mobile Micro four third camera easily. What about zoom you may say? Well I suppose there are some photographer, like me, who do not mind a solid 35mm or 28mm camera for street photography, no zoom. Zoom lens breaks image quality. With better and better sensor on camera phone nowadays, suddenly the border between a phone and a dedicated small camera becomes hazy.

I am planning my trip end of the year. Before that I took my Nokia Pureview 808 (42Mpix sensor) to Japan, and I was really happy with the results. Its mobile, chargable, and really good quality at the time. Now with huawei, not only it has great lens, it has better sensor and a host of other photography features too, namely timelapse, possibility of astrophotography (milky way snap). Then it has lots of memory (256GB) for storage, linkable to internet for uploads, and it comes with maps, messageing, wait, it also makes calls!

All for RM3800. Sony RTS100 cost about RM5000 brand new.

When we put things into perspective this way, suddenly certain things becomes a bargain.

If I can install outlook ( I doubt it, its also part of the black listing right?) to access gmail, and another don't know what for youtube. I think that would be it. I don't move around that much, so I would have done complex gmail, or google drive stuff on desktop. Mobile phone is just for, 'mobile' activities, which is very limited in the first place.

Another issue is for the financial trader alike: Metatrader apps, super important for financial traders. And no one talked about that.

I think you can use third party email apps to access gmail if you were to go into huawei ecosystem. Go search for comparison studies on third party email apps for details.

The real problem is youtube I think. because third party youtube apps may have risk of being banned from youtube from time to time. I am speaking as someone who has grown from earlier IOS, then Symbian, then window phone system, finally android. So I have lived under the shadow of kena banned for quite some time earlier.

This post has been edited by peter32: Oct 9 2019, 01:49 PM

Kindly share how the huawei email apps functions with Gmail account, or other third party email apps. And how the other huawei youtube player's funcionality too.

Thanks.