Why does Meizu not have GMS certification?I was browsering another forum when I noticed someone bringing up an important point I had totally forgot about which is Google GMS certification. For those of you who don't know what it is:
The GMS abbreviation itself stands for Google Mobile Services and pertains to the pack of native Google stuff like Search, Gmail, Play, Talk, Streetview, Youtube and others. If the phone is not GMS certified it can’t have the Google services embedded officially and with the lower rank of certification the Google trademark can’t be used. So, have you ever wondered why you sometimes run into compatibility issues, errors and such? Well now you know why, it also goes to show that Meizu must not care as much as they'd like to claim about the international market as this is important, and even their direct competitor Xiaomi's are certified. Did you know about it? And what do you think about this? | |
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In order to have a gms cert you must use play and only play for ALL your devices... Meizu has its own store and isn't about to give it up... It's the same reason Amazon devices arnt certified either Amazon has its own store too go google no certify... Sure you can install other markets.. But on a google certified device it will only ever come with play
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i mainly bought mx4 pro with NFC so i can use android pay just to find out that meizu doesnt have certification from google so i cannot make payments
big mistake | |
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android pay is a picky beast.… it also doesn't like root… and a large number of apps, Android pay looks for and if installed, pay wont work... sure you can use methods to get it to work(using play services from a very similar certified device… hide root and other apps that might disable pay) but that's to much of a pain in the ass for me and may not even work…
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Edited by UltraResponseToZznidar at 2016-07-19 01:28
dimmortal replied at 2016-07-06 11:21 As an example why it's bollox. Quote: In order to have a gms cert you must use play and only play for ALL your devices. Xiaomi has their own app-store on ALL China Xiaomi. But uses Google-App store on ALL global firmware versions. (not relate to devices.). GMS is absolutely not related to any kind of device store, it's just about, the big question. -> Does a company sell international phones? -> Meizu does not. and as you brought up... xiaomi does, though Xiaomi also has it's own App store. (other Chinese / global companies do the same, just Meizu refuses to.) | |
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