Huawei revamping landscape mobile operating system-Dahe.cn

China’s first fully autonomous mobile operating system was launched by technology firm Huawei Technologies Co on Tuesday night, breaking the global operating system landscape dominated by Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS.

The advancement is very likely to “extend beyond smartphones to devices like computers,” which once again showed that the United States’ suppression of China’s technology sector will only fuel the domestic push for independent innovation, industry experts said.

Huawei’s latest mobile operating system, HarmonyOS Next, is also dubbed the “purebred” version of Harmony as it does away with the roots of the Android system and will no longer support Android-based apps.

Yu Chengdong, chief executive officer of Huawei, said that all of China’s top 5,000 apps have developed native apps for the new system, and to date, more than 15,000 native apps have been launched.

“It only took Huawei a year to go the way that foreign companies have been doing for a decade,” Yu said, emphasizing that the number of devices supporting HarmonyOS has surpassed 1 billion, with 6.75 million registered developers.

According to him, the number of native applications is 10 times greater than in June, when Huawei launched a beta version of HarmonyOS Next.

Han Juke, deputy head of the China Communications Industry Association, said that for the first time, China has achieved independent controllability of a domestic operating system, in terms of underlying architecture, connections and a more secure information protection mechanism. .

“Huawei has emerged from the cocoon and become a butterfly,” said Han. “Such efforts not only demonstrate the country’s determination to advance important technological advances, but also lay a solid foundation for the country’s telecommunications industry in the future.”

More than that, Xiang Ligang, director general of the Information Consumer Alliance, said that “it is very likely that the system could extend beyond smartphones to devices such as computers, thus helping China reduce dependence on certain chips ”.

“The U.S. suppression of China’s technology industry is counterproductive to global supply chains and will only cause harm to the U.S. itself,” Xiang emphasized. “Instead, these pressures will only fuel China’s drive for more internal and independent technological advances.”

Currently, HarmonyOS Next is available on several devices, including Huawei’s Mate 60 and Huawei Pura 70 series, among others, and will be available on more devices next year, including its latest Mate XT triple smartphone and Nova mid-range models, the company said.

However, industry experts also pointed out that Huawei’s latest operating system still faces several challenges, including with ecosystem partners on issues such as commission rates.

Wang Haoyu, CEO of Merit Asset Management, said: “Future success also requires strong ecosystem support and good market strategies. The next few years will be a critical period to test whether HarmonyOS Next can transform into a class operating system worldwide. Huawei and other ecosystem partners need to work together to ensure it can stand out in the fierce market competition.”