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all right I'm calling it the flagship season has officially begun and we'll start with how Google may have inadvertently revealed the release date of the pixel 3 well according to this is tech today and Android police a leak on content marketing platform famebit suggests that a new pixel 3 phone is coming on October 4th of this year you see famebit is a Google owned platform that connects creators with advertisers so if you're an advertiser and you want a youtuber to promote your product you go through famebit you see this famebit listing which may have been written by google or one of its agencies reveals that the company was apparently looking for Canadian content creators for the pixel 3 launch on October 4th again we aren't 100% sure that this is indeed Google's work or one of his agencies so don't put all your faith in this listing but if it's a hoax it's a convincing one now let's move on to the whole fortnight Google Play Store Samsung saga remember a few weeks ago we got all excited that fortnight was finally coming to Android well it is but not through the Google Play Store fortnight for Android might be an exclusive for owners of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 at least at first the source of that rumor told Android headlines that the note 9 exclusive would last up to 30 days since that was the only information available at the time the assumption was that after the 30-day period anyone would be able to download and install the game but no it gets more complicated even though the original source told Android headlines that the note 9 exclusive would last only 30 days we know now that it's likely the Samsung exclusive could last an additional 90 days after that this means that the note 9 owners will get access to fortnight first then there will be a period where owners of other Samsung devices will be able to play it now that is likely because Samsung is paying Epic Games gobs of money for an exclusive also you got to remember that mother Google charges a 30% cut off of each app sale in fact epic games CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed the release plan with the verge citing quote economic efficiency of avoiding the 30% cut Google earns from all app sales on the Play Store so do you all want this guy Kurt McMaster the former CEO of cyanogen and he is infamous for saying things like Samsung will get slaughtered in five years and that he was going to put a bullet through Google's head well a short time later when CyanogenMod became cyanogen and tried to become a profitable business it utterly failed and McMaster had to wear egg on his face and be humbled very publicly I would suggest that Huawei learn from cyanogen because just days after surpassing Apple as the second largest smartphone maker in the world Huawei has announced its ambition to take the top spot as reported by Bloomberg Huawei's consumer division chief Richard you said that he wants the company to achieve the goal by the fourth quarter of 2019 according to you Huawei aims for a market share of more than 20% this would be quite a jump from 15% market share that the counter port research says the company recorded in the second quarter of 2018 according to the same research firm Samsung is the current number one with a market share of 20% now don't get me wrong if you guys remember I've been a big fan of Chinese manufacturers I've said before that they were gonna take over the middle market and they virtually have and they're gonna continue to do so the problem is when you make big bold announcements like this you tempt the gods and you also have a serious hurdle that other manufacturers haven't had you're gonna have a hard time POIs way getting into the US market for real I mean you're there but you're not there so unless you have a specific plan to tackle that the carriers are gonna fight you and make sure that you can't get into the US market let me know what you think in the comments below or on Twitter but just wait a second because I got something really 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