Ahmad Kamran 
Huawei is working on developing alternative apps and services since the deportation of Google services as a result of US sanctions. And now the most important development of this list comes in the name of TomTom, which will replace Google Maps on the Chinese company’s devices.
Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom has signed a deal with Huawei, which will allow the Chinese company to use Maps and other services for its smartphones. Talks between the two companies had been going on for some time, but this has now been made public.
Needless to say, Google Maps is a very important application that comes preloaded on Android phones, which gives users a detailed map of almost every corner of the globe while also being used for navigation.
Dutch company TomTom has been developing navigation software since the ’90s. This agreement is an important advance from Huawei’s attempt to provide Google services to alternative users.
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Because at present the Chinese company’s phones have an open-source Android operating system but Google Play Store, Maps, YouTube and other services are not available. Harmony was introduced to Android’s replacement operating system following US sanctions by Huawei last year. In the first week of January, Huawei announced a $26 million concession in developing apps for the company’s own App Store.
Huawei was blacklisted and called by the Trump administration a threat to US national security, while its devices can be used for espionage; the Chinese company has always denied the allegations.
TomTom is now focused on software updates, rather than selling physical devices. TomTom has started a new chain of digital map-linked businesses around the world.
