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Comment by psii

9 hours ago

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

I don't think that picture indicates in any way that there are no Google Services on those phones. I've had multiple Chinese phones, and all of them had both their in-house app store (every brand seems to have their own) and also the Google Play Store. And obviously things like Google Play Services and Google Maps are installed too, way too many Android apps wouldn't work without them

This isn't even a China-exclusive strategy, Samsung does the same with their Galaxy Store.