I know, so why is the comment talking about Apple's app store? Something that is so different from the Play Store, on devices with such a different license, that talking about Play Store practices make no sense?

There _are_ no legitimate alternatives. Not by Huawei, not by any western company, not by anyone. There's only one, and Apple has it on lock-down; it has zero bearing on anything not-Apple.

https://appstore.huawei.com/ ?

Sure this is Huawei's store, but if you were born in Europe, there's no chance that you would download something from here. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/business/huawei-trump-chi...

I think so too, so I guess you realize that simply having an app store is not enough to actually replace Google Play.