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		simion314 on May 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Huawei's alternative OS to Android set to roll out... What history? Did china reversed engineered Windows? Isn't also Android notorious for re-implementing Java? So it would be hypocritical for Google to claim that you can't reverse engineer the Google Play APIs

luizfzs on May 22, 2019 [–]

They did that with Cisco routers' OS. Huawei's switches' OS even had Cisco's logo on it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000

uhhhhhhh on May 22, 2019 | [–]

Also Sina -> Twitter. Pretty sure the sina API still returns "Retweeted" count last I checked.

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