{"id":299538,"date":"2019-03-15T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=299538"},"modified":"2019-03-15T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:40:09","slug":"huawei-has-a-backup-os-in-case-it-loses-access-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299538-huawei-has-a-backup-os-in-case-it-loses-access-to-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Huawei has a backup OS in case it loses access to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei has developed its own operating systems for PCs and smartphones in case it loses access to Windows and Android.<\/p>\n<p>A Huawei spokesperson confirmed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3001685\/huawei-confirms-it-has-built-its-own-operating-system-just-case-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>South China Morning Post<\/strong><\/a> that it has its own backup OS in case it is cut off from Google&#8217;s Android operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The United States previously banned ZTE from using American products, which crippled the manufacturer due to its reliance on foreign components and software.<\/p>\n<p>As tensions increase between Huawei and the United States government, Huawei has accommodated for all eventualities by preparing its own operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei stated that it will only use this software in a worst-case scenario and plans to continue using Android and Windows on its smartphones and computers respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This means that unless the United States implements a similar sanction on Huawei as it did on ZTE, nothing should change with regards to the software installed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fully support our partners&#8217; operating systems &#8211; we love them and our customers love them,&#8221; said Huawei.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299338-all-the-new-features-coming-in-android-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">All the new features coming in Android 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei has developed its own operating systems for PCs and smartphones in case it loses access to Windows and Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":281901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,1982,58046,807],"class_list":["post-299538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-huawei","tag-scmp","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299540,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299538\/revisions\/299540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}