This move is said to be affected by trade tensions between the US and China. In addition, major Chinese smartphone makers are also concerned about potential future limitations such as what happened to Huawei.
In 2019, Huawei was banned from using Google Mobile Services (GMS - a collection of apps and application programming interfaces developed by Google for Android device manufacturers).
This has led to the loss of access to Google Play and Google's core applications such as M up and Gmail, significantly affecting the company's international presence and boosting the development of its own Harmony OS operating system and Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) system.
According to Xiaomi Time news site, Xiaomi, BBK Group (parent company of OPPO, Vivo and OnePlus) and Huawei can cooperate to develop an operating system independent of Google. If the rumors are true, the upcoming hyperOS 3 operating system is likely to pave the way for Xiaomi to gradually move away from Google's ecosystem and move towards a completely independent operating system.
According to analysis from experts, Xiaomi, as the world's second largest smartphone maker, will be very risky to leave Google. Accordingly, they can isolate themselves with a large number of users outside of China, reduce the app's global reach, invest heavily in alternative services and, more importantly, lose a large market share.
But on the other hand, there are also many opinions supporting Xiaomi, BKK and Huawei's cooperation. If they successfully start a business, it will create a technological force that will hold a large part of the global smartphone market. By sharing resources, they will be able to: Allocate development costs to operating system components, develop a more attractive alternative application environment, increase negotiation strength with global partners...
The impact of such a change will be significant, given the market position of the companies involved. Xiaomi, Vivo and OPPO are always ranked among the top 5 smartphone providers globally and this change will cause a significant disruption to the established Android ecosystem, commented Phone Arena.
