tl;dr: noone really knows what’s going on, but, potentially, this means not only the ban for Qualcomm chips from being sold to ZTE, but also the licensing of Android’s Google Play from Google, which basically might mean kaput for any Android sales outside of China (and North Korea, I guess?). (ICYMI: many Android phones sold in China don’t have Google Play.)
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. But this’ll be tough…
tl;dr: noone really knows what’s going on, but, potentially, this means not only the ban for Qualcomm chips from being sold to ZTE, but also the licensing of Android’s Google Play from Google, which basically might mean kaput for any Android sales outside of China (and North Korea, I guess?). (ICYMI: many Android phones sold in China don’t have Google Play.)
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. But this’ll be tough…