The growing trend among OEMs nowadays is to bring their proprietary apps to the Google Play Store so they can update them individually (and sometimes faster) and then just focus on updating the core OS, particularly when there’s a huge update from Google, and then just update specific apps individually. Google itself, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and other have been doing this the past months, and now Chinese brand Huawei is doing that as well, at least for one app of theirs.
One of their top execs, Taylor Wiber, announced on his Google Plus account that they have listened to the request of their users and that they are now decoupling some of their apps from the EMUI and making them available on the Google Play Store. But in actuality, it’s just one app, the Huawei Backup, but it is indeed ready for download and/or update on GPS, instead of having to wait for the OEM to do a side server update for each specific app.
Huawei Backup, as the name implies, is all about backing up all your personal and application data for safekeeping. If ever you’ll get a new Huawei device, all you need to do is retrieve all your data using the app and it will just be like you did not transfer devices, except this new one will be better hopefully.
If this goes well for Huawei and its users, you can expect even more app uncoupling from the OEM. And this will probably be the continuing trend for a lot of brands, as a solution for the ongoing problem of the “fragmentation of the ecosystem”. If rumors are true about the modular system of the upcoming Android N update, then this should serve it well too.
SOURCE: +Taylor Wimberly
