I have used the Google Nexus One when Play Store was still in its infancy.
I have also used the Nokia 808 on Symbian and Nokia 1020 on Microsoft's OS.
Microsoft failing doesn't mean others cannot do it.
I'm no expert. All I see is that there is a gap not filled in the market and someone have woken a sleeping giant to fill it.
Probably the strategy by Huawei is to convince the Chinese developers to make their apps in multiple languages, with money from their Govt to push this faster.
They should work with app builder like TikTok to see how their homegrown developers can massively capture the global market in a short span of time.
The difference that, we were doing that to oppose Apple's rise and we had no other investments prior to droids.
Over the years we have spent so much money on paid apps, subscriptions and games that have their data saved in Google Games, nobody will wanna waste years of efforts and investments away.
And we have nothing to be against Google to support the Chinese (ok... maybe this is a contradiction since I switched over to a Chinese brand, since SONY pulled out and I won't be able to get my hands on an Xperia One, but seeing I am anti-Apple, Anti-Korean and Anti-Chinese, I chose the lesser evil)
Using Chinese phone is still ok if their interface is not 100% iOS copycat. I mean, if any of you noticed, all Chinese brands force us to have app icons cluttered onto our desktops instead of having an app drawer. And this is why I chose to bear with Huawei. At least they bother to give us an app drawer option. Else we would end up having gazillions of pages on our homescreen because of the many apps we have.
I am pretty sure not only will there be spyware and adware (like Xiaomi and Lenovo) in Huawei's new OS, it will be an identical iOS copycat.
So nope, if my Mate 20 Pro will have an option to upgrade to their nonsense OS instead of Q, I rather not update it ever.