Google is trying to come to the rescue, reportedly arguing that cutting Huawei off from Android

threatens US security.

Someone's going to bat now. You know, when the news first broke about the ban,

Trump, the whole trade war and whatnot, everybody bailed. They followed the protocol. They said, okay fine, you know, we can't do business. Fine. We're going to wait and see. But now, Google surprisingly, maybe not so surprisingly,

coming out publicly,

speaking on Huawei's behalf

and coming up with a reason

or at least a case that they can make for why this ban might be actually bad might be actually worse for people's security, particularly U.S., and so forth.

So here's how the argument goes, well,

here's what they're saying.

That if Google is banned from providing

their operating system to Huawei.

It's not going to stop Huawei from selling smartphones.

And what they're likely to do is to do this forked version of Android. They would do this

knock-off

something based on the open source version of Android

but then with their own app store and their own

no play services and whatnot.

And what that means is that people will be installing apps that Google couldn't check for malware, viruses, and the rest of it.

And you know, they might be getting these apps from unknown sources.

So what do you end up with if you have more people in the world, whether they're in the US or not, who are running potentially hackable less secure devices, is that even US information that travels to those devices through global communication

could be more susceptible.

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