Comment by deaux
8 hours ago
Chinese phones sold in China ship without Google services. Chinese phones sold outside of China include them.
8 hours ago
Chinese phones sold in China ship without Google services. Chinese phones sold outside of China include them.
That's false. The ones you can get here in Slovenia don't have them. I've personally helped quite a few friends sideload them. I also remember how shocked people were to find out there's no YouTube or Play Store after buying a Huawei or Xiaomi phone when that first came into effect.
Correct, same in Germany. Here is a photo I shot last December in an electronics store. Aurora Store is now official, I guess.
https://imgur.com/a/v6zaRYo
Probably because they are bootleg imports in a very small country.
Chinese telephones legally imported usually have them in most relevant big markets like Indonesia, India, Brazil, etc.
So the national carrier importing them and selling them in their brick-and-mortar stores is "bootleg imports"? Not to mention that the EU is, legally speaking, a single market so the same rules should apply everywhere.
The reason they probably have them preinstalled over there is because they don't care about licensing so they can freely preload whatever they want. At least that's how it was with netbooks in the early 2000s that they were selling loaded with MS Office, Windows, even Adobe, of course with no COA stickers.