There is a good reason why shipments of the Huawei Mate 30 line picked up last month

Thanks to its placement on the U.S. Commerce Department's entity list for security reasons, Chinese manufacturer Huawei is not able to access its U.S. supply chain. Luckily for the company, it had anticipated something like this happening and kept an inventory of extra parts. It also was able to obtain some of the parts it needs through the offshore units of U.S. suppliers.

But the . Unable to get a license to use the Google Play services version of Android, the manufacturer's phones will not run Google's core Android apps like Search, the Play Store, Messages, Gmail, ...