Stefan Mileschin

We are not partnering as such

ProtonMail has been in touch to say that a story originally penned by Bloomberg saying that it was forming a partnership with Huawei was not quite right.

Apparently, the story came down to ProtonMail's 5 September announcement that ProtonMail was being put on the F-droid alternative app store as part of its push to support alternative distribution channels in addition to Google Play. In the announcement, ProtonMail mentioned three other alternatives that it was considering supporting, including the Samsung Galaxy Store, the Amazon App store, and the Huawei AppGallery.

"This part of our announcement caught the attention of Bloomberg who published an article on 6 September that ProtonMail was in talks with Huawei about a potential “partnership”. This is a misunderstanding of the situation because just as being in the Apple App Store or the Google Play store does not imply that we are “partnering” with Apple or Google, this does not mean we are “partnering” with Huawei", ProtonMail's Andy Yen said.

Discussions with Huawei are about continuing to make ProtonMail available to users who have Huawei devices. ProtonMail is already available on Huawei because the Android app is distributed on Huawei devices through the Google Play store.

"What is changing is that in addition to making ProtonMail available to Huawei users through Google Play, we may make ProtonMail available through the Huawei AppGallery", Yen said.

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