Winners and losers: Android relief and another Huawei nightmare

Anybody's a winner during Black Friday week, merely in the tech news realm information technology's been another calendar week of winners and losers. Hooray for Android users, boo at Huawei.

News has been thin on the ground this week with the major tech firms keeping their powder dry until Black Friday is out of the way. At that place'south still some swell Blackness Fri deals on offer for you as well, except from the stingy so-and-sos at Nintendo.

One the mobile side, nosotros've had rumours that Apple is only two years away from adding its own modems to iPhones (pitiful again, Qualcomm), while a OnePlus ten leak suggested it'll exist business every bit usual. Motorola might be the commencement to benefit from Samsung's 200-megapixel photographic camera sensor. Non Samsung so? Weird.

Celebs enjoyed a tech incursion this week. Adele scored a major win for Spotify users by persuading the streaming giant to ditch the shuffle button from album pages. But Keanu Reeves isn't up for Neo or John Wick appearing in Mortal Kombat. Spotify and Netflix formed an alliance to serve those who can't go plenty of their favourite shows too.

Merely what near our winners and losers for the week?

Winner: Android users

This has been, in the main, a good week for Android users with news Google is FINALLY fixing the way it handles the reactions from iMessage users.

It'south been a issues bear for anybody who has ever been in a group message with users on both sides of the swell Bone split because these reactions just work properly between iMessage users.

Yous know what I'm talking about, right? Those text interpretations of what iPhone users come across as a heart, or a like, dislike, exclamation bespeak or question mark. "James loved "Let's come across at the pub at 7pm"" followed by "Eric questioned "Let'south meet at the pub at 7pm"" and "Thomas disliked "Let'southward meet at the pub at 7pm""

This was a actually unnecessary way for Google to mishandle the reaction with a text fallback that messed up the feed of iPhone and Android users alike.

Now Google has fixed information technology in a new version of its stock Messages app rolling out, that'll present these reactions as emoji instead. Meliorate late than never, Google.

Speaking of stuff Google should have done ages ago, there was another win for Android users this calendar week, only it comes courtesy of DuckDuckGo's Privacy Browser. A new feature, currently in beta, will help you prevent third-party apps across your phone sending your personal usage data to the likes of Facebook and Google.

It'due south similar to Apple tree'southward App Transparency Feature but actually shows yous the results rather than simply requesting developers don't share the data.

Loser: Huawei

This week brought another disaster for Huawei

Information technology'southward been a crude couple of years for Huawei hasn't information technology? Betwixt continued suspicion of its 5G infrastructure, having to spin off its successful Honor sub-make, and the Us merchandise embargo that's shut it out of the Google Play Store and all of the expert apps.

However, at least Huawei has a reliable app store replacement loaded with all the best apps that'southward safety for people to use, right?

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The makers of the anti-virus software Dr. Web reckon that the Huawei App Gallery is littered with malware. It establish a trojan lurking inside 190 games available within the shop. Lovely! And those apps have been downloaded 9.3 meg times. Superb!

When users requite the infected app the requisite permissions, information technology could then transfer all of their lovely personal information to a remote server. That includes mobile phone numbers, device location, network info, device specs and plenty more. Oh, and once all that's done the app will just serve yous advertisement after ad after advertizing. Sort yourselves out Huawei.