Huawei hasn't given up hope of restoring Google to its new devices, and Google certainly wants the same, but until there’s a change in Trump’s blacklist, this is the path Huawei is on. With the device in the market, talk of simple workarounds stalled and security concerns for the mainstream users won out. Huawei has spent the intervening months pushing its Huawei Mobile Services alternative to Google, with financial incentives for developers to jump onboard. Google even took the surprise step of warning users not to try these dangerous methods. How the app is circumventing Google security is unknown.

Source: Forbes March 15, 2020 10:41 UTC