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FWIW Huawei smart watches are quite popular in some EU countries, but the Huawei health app needs to be installed on newest Android by downloading an APK because Google kicked it out of Play Store.

Even for me, setting this up and giving necessary permissions was non-obvious.

I don't believe any sane big company (except maybe a few with extremely loyal userbase for whom it would make big financial difference) will pull down their app from official app store and force people to go via an alternative store if they can just stay in regular store.



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