It is often said that there is no harm that does not come, and in the case of Huawei it is clear that the veto imposed by the United States to work with its companies has forced the Chinese to reinvent themselves. This is the case of its AppGallery app store, which is growing like never before.
The restrictions that prevent Huawei from working with North American companies have orphaned the company from Google’s apps and services. Something that is having as a consequence the empowerment by Huawei of its application store. Something that the firm boasts again.
Increase in monthly users
Huawei is breastfeeding by the numbers that the application store is reaping in recent months. And without a doubt the best data that can demonstrate this improvement and upward trend of the store is the number of monthly active users. That figure has grown for A ppGallery to 530 million users , making it quite a significant figure, although logically far from those that Google and Apple stores can harvest.
The support of the developers is undoubtedly vital for the growth of the store, and in this regard Huawei has announced that the number of developers who are already creating content for the store has increased by no less than 77% during 2020 , which it is undoubtedly a very marked growth compared to previous years. A total of 384.4 billion applications and games were distributed in 2020, which is 174 billion more than those distributed in 2019. The most widely distributed in the store have been games.
With these numbers Huawei has wanted to show that AppGallery is a store on the rise, in fact it has already become the third most important in the world, only behind the App Store and Play Store, which are the absolute dominators. Zhang Zhe, Director of Global Partnerships and Business Development of Green Development of Huawei, wanted to highlight the rapid growth of the store, stating that while in 2019 there were 25 countries with more than one million AppGallery users, now that number has grown up to 42 countries , so growth is being very pronounced.
More and more weight outside of China
Undoubtedly, this is the great challenge that Huawei faces in its new stage with AppGallery to supply the services and the Google store. The experience of the firm in China, where it is a leader in app distributions, is serving as the basis for developers to expand their business outside of that country with success and with high business expectations. Let’s remember that in addition to AppGallery, Huawei is strengthening its search engines thanks to Petal Search , as well as the implementation and improvement of other basic apps for any mobile, such as Petal Maps .
Huawei’s great challenge now is to maintain this growth path despite the reduction in sales of its mobile phones. Waiting for the US veto to wane at some point, or for its alternative operating system, HarmonyOS , to become a reality in the West soon.
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