Google’s decision to cut off Android support to Huawei phones will hobble European mobile users and highlights how deeply the Continent relies on American and Chinese companies for gadgets, apps and internet services.

European customers will be hit harder than those in the U.S. or China. Huawei phones are largely unavailable in the U.S., and Google has been blocked in China. But the company has flourished at an extraordinary rate in Europe, capturing more than a quarter of the smartphone market.

Impact: Huawei will be unable to recover quickly, analysts said.

Quotable: “Being able to make it in Europe means that it is a lot easier for Huawei to make it in the rest of the world,” said Steve Tsang, the director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.