Emir BardakçıThere have been rumors in the tech space of a collaboration among three Chinese tech players – Xiaomi, BBK Group (parent company of OPPO, Vivo, and OnePlus), and Huawei – to launch a Google-free Android alternative. This daring move would redefine the smartphone market we are used to, in response to Huawei’s forced exit from Google services in 2019. If rumors are to be believed, HyperOS 3 is potentially paving the way for Xiaomi to move incrementally away from Google’s ecosystem, moving forward with a completely independent operating system.
The Huawei Precedent
The experience of having been banned by the US since 2019 has been a tough yet eye-opening one for Chinese companies. With a prohibition against utilizing Google Mobile Services (GMS), Huawei hastened its work on its in-house Harmony OS and Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).
- Compelled to leave Google services in May 2019
- Created HMS as an alternative to Google services
- AppGallery set to replace Play Store
- Released Harmony OS to minimize Android reliance
In spite of an early struggle, Huawei has been able to establish a sustainable ecosystem, especially in China whose services are limited anyway for Google.
Is This Realistic for Xiaomi?
As the world’s second-largest Android smartphone brand, it would be very risky for Xiaomi to abandon Google. The firm established its global brand on delivering feature-laden phones with full Google support at reasonable prices.
Xiaomi dumping Google services would potentially:
- Alienate a vast number of users beyond China
- Decrease availability of apps in global markets
- Need enormous investment in alternative services
- May result in major market share losses
Xiaomi is again the world’s third most-selling phone brand
The Potential Strategy
If there is merit to such rumors, Xiaomi is hardly likely to be planning a full-fat break with Google. HyperOS, itself already a deviation in direction for Xiaomi in moving away from stock Android, would likely ease in:
- Prioritize enhancing Xiaomi’s internal ecosystem services
- Gradually reduce dependency on Google services
- Develop region-specific variations with variable degrees of integration with Google
- Create developer incentives for their own app marketplace
Why This Collaboration Is Logical
The collaboration among these three titans would form a technological powerhouse holding a large percentage of the global smartphone market. By sharing resources, they would be able to:
- Allocate development costs for main OS components
- Develop a more appealing alternative app environment
- Enhance bargaining power with global partners
Guard against future US trade restrictions Abandoning Google services entirely would be shooting themselves in the foot in Western markets, but offering a viable alternative provides them with insurance against geopolitical risks. For all the latest update news on HyperOS features and more, use our MemeOS Enhancer app available at the Play Store to also access hidden features of Xiaomi, updates for system apps, and access to update screens.
the day they get rid of Google is the day I will switch to Samsung
I mean by the time they released a Google free OS it’s not now they can’t even make a stable OS with Google so make an os from scratch yeah nah Xiaomi can’t afford
It is very difficult to trust the O.S from these chinese companies even with Google Android, imagine the level of trust when you delete Google from this equation.
pues no lo veo
Would be nice if they minimise restricti9n over installing custom Roms too, Google isnt less of a spyware than chinese products anyway.
The day Xiaomi leave Google, am switching to another Google operating phone, in fact my next mobile is Samsung galaxy
I’d switch to honor if xiaomi is really going to do that.
if that happens Nokia HMD, Motorola, and Sony or Other local brands like cherry mobile, My|Phone
and Micromax will be a next alternative.
or if LG Goes back that would Flip all of them.
They will be damned fools if they do that, they will lose all of us, that will be the start of the end of Xiaomi. Keeping that in mind I will never update the OS on my Poco again.
oh sure, don’t use youtube, chrome, google search, google pay, gmail… etc. Ok 🤣🤣🤣
Nah, they wont do it, that would be bad for them.
please don’t do such kind of thing as customers we have to suffer with such kind of updates please dont remove google
it will be a catastrophy if xiaomi do this, they will be like huawei where no one cares about outside china
its clear that they are trying and it sucks!!! 🤮 lately they are forcing people to use their crappy full of shittware apps like mi video which thinks we would like to see shit recommended videos from the net each time we just want to watch video from our local gallary stored on the phone memory 😡 coz of their attempt itself i have thought alot about switching away after years of Xiaomi phone, i can imagine if they totally try to ditch Google.. don’t think we will even be able to take a normal call without adds all around the screen 😡
if xiaomi wants to challenge the united states, it should not need to change the operating system but only the software.
or make 2 versions of the same smartphone with different operating systems, one with google and one without google at a much cheaper price.
replacing the entire operating system and including software just because of a conflict with the united states seems childish
Many countries/entities that previously opposed the United States ended up in ashes because they challenged it childishly.