Foreign media views Hongmeng 2027 or "zero".
In the smartphone operating system, Android and iOS have always dominated the screen, and although Microsoft and Nokia have worked together to try to get a piece of the pie, both have ended in failure.
The national brand Huawei found it in hardware"Stuck neck"But after years of hard work, a hole has finally been punched in the software.
On August 9, 2019, Huawei officially released its self-developed HarmonyOS operating system at the developer conference.
The HarmonyOS system is a full-scene distributed operating system, which can effectively connect people, devices, and scenarios, and maximize data sharing.
On June 2, 2021, Hongmeng 2Version 0 is online, and its biggest feature is that it can be used on smartphones, but Yu Chengdong said that Hongmeng is not a mobile phone operating system, which is a big surprise.
On September 23, 2021, the number of users of the HarmonyOS system exceeded 1200 million, with an average of more than 1 million users updating the system every day.
In October 2021, the equipment equipped with the Red Alliance system exceeded 1500 million units;
In December 2021, Huawei devices equipped with the Hongmeng operating system exceeded 2200 million units;
In April 2022, Huawei terminals equipped with the Hongmeng operating system broke through 2400 million units.
On November 4, 2022, Yu Chengdong said: The number of Huawei devices equipped with Red Devils has reached 3200 million units, a year-on-year increase of 113%, and the shipment volume of Red Devil Zhilian products exceeded 2500 million units, a year-on-year increase of 212%.
From these data, it can be seen that:1,HarmonyOS system is the operating system with the fastest growth rate of users in the world;2. The user growth rate of the HarmonyOS system began to slow down;3. The HarmonyOS system is far from accounting for 16% of the market share.
According to foreign research data, the Android system occupies 81% of the share, the iOS system occupies 18% of the share, and the HarmonyOS system has a share of 2%. In the face of this data, foreign media bluntly said: Hongmeng 2027 or"Zero"。
Why do foreign media look so closely at Hongmeng?
On the one hand, Huawei has been suppressed by the United States, and shipments of terminal products such as smartphones and personal computers have plummeted
On the other hand, apart from Huawei, there are almost no Hongmeng systems in the market.
Only Apple is equipped with its own operating system, but Apple's iOS system is being eaten away by Android little by little. From the highest 65% in 2012 to 18% now, it is only one step away from the life and death line of 16%.
Nowadays, Huawei is also following Apple's old path, fantasizing about carrying the banner of the Hongmeng system by itself, which is too difficult, no wonder foreign media have belittled the Hongmeng system.
In order to win this one"Operating system"The war, Huawei also made a grand plan: by 2023, the installed capacity of Hongmeng will reach 12300 million, that is, 900 million new users.
Is this possible?It is certainly impossible to rely on Huawei alone!
In 2020, Huawei had 1 billion devices worldwide, including 700 million mobile phones. In 2021 and 2022, affected by the chip problem, Huawei's equipment shipments were not high, and smartphone shipments were reduced to others.
In 2023, Huawei still has not solved the chip problem, and the smartphone is equipped with Qualcomm's 4G processor, although it may lead to the continued development of the mobile phone business, but it is obvious that consumer recognition is not high.
However, even if Huawei's mobile phone shipments reached 2400 million units, plus the original 3200 million units, 12The goal of 300 million units is still some way off.
So, how to solve the problem of insufficient installed capacity?One can only count on foreign aid!
Looking at it, in addition to Huawei and Xiaomi, there are indeed many domestic mobile phone brands, such as OPPO, vivo, Honor, OnePlus, Realme, Meitu, etc., but they compete with each other, and many brands have their own operating systems.
For example, Xiaomi has optimized MIUI based on Android, OPPO has optimized ColorOS based on Android, Vivo has optimized OriginOS based on Android, and Honor, a former subordinate, has optimized MagicUI based on Android.
At first glance, everyone is fighting in silos and scattered. But in fact, only Huawei has worked the domestic system, and other manufacturers have adopted the Android system without exception.
How to change this embarrassing situation and push the domestic Hongmeng forward?
First of all, HarmonyOS has a technical foundation.
A software, in order to win the favor of consumers, in the operation of the market to fight a bloody way. Must be silky smooth at all times!It must always adapt to the hardware in question!It has to have its own character!
Red Magic OS began planning and research and development in 2012, and it took 7 years to meet consumers. Even so, with Huawei's strong R&D strength, it is impossible to complete Hongmeng, and can only meet with everyone in advance.
HarmonyOS 10 is online, and you can't even carry your phone, why?The reason is still not enough, afraid of crashing. June 2021, Hongmeng 2Version 0 was launched, and it began to be applied on smartphones.
to 30 version, the HarmonyOS system has reached real maturity, it is very silky and smooth to use, and at the same time, it has more advantages than Android and iOS in terms of office.
The HarmonyOS system uses a microkernel, which has stronger security, reliability, scalability, and easy maintenance. This is something that Android's macro kernel doesn't have.
As the operating system becomes more and more complex, and the kernel becomes more and more complex, the disadvantages of the macro kernel begin to appear, and this is precisely the advantage of the microkernel. The specific performance is as follows:
1. There are more and more macro kernel systems, and the potential vulnerabilities are getting bigger and bigger, which is often impossible to prevent. The microkernel only has the most basic system services, which are orders of magnitude smaller, so there will be fewer vulnerabilities and more security.
2. The macro kernel has a large number of hardware-driven system services, resulting in poor scalability, while the microkernel transfers the system services to the user-mode service module, so the expansion advantage is greatly enhanced.
3) The user module of the microkernel can be started, stopped, uninstalled and updated independently, which is also not available in the macro kernel.
In addition, Hongmeng operating system is a distributed system, and its main feature is multi-screen interaction and collaboration.
For example, when you call a taxi on your Huawei phone, put it in your pocket after the phone is locked, and raise your hand to look at your Huawei smart watch, you can see your taxi information.
Android can't create this seamless connection between devices, and multiple applications need to establish protocols to search, discover, pair, and work.
If you use Huawei computers, Huawei TVs, Huawei cars, etc. at home, these devices can be discovered, connected, transmitted, and used for other work at any time through the HarmonyOS system.
The Android system has taken a fancy to the advantages of HarmonyOS and has tried to build this scheme through the bing mechanism, but the result can only achieve cross-process communication, but cannot achieve cross-device communication, and HarmonyOS is still better than the Android system in this regard.
Hongmeng can make all virtual devices into a large terminal, and each device can become a component of other devices, so as to achieve software-defined hardware. This is the advantage of HarmonyOS.
Second, Omnicom has an ecological foundation.
We all know that the ecosystem is more important than the technical level for the success or failure of an operating system.
Android, iOS, and Windows may be dominant, but not because they have a strong ecosystem. One of the criteria for measuring the ecosystem is the number of apps, and the key to the number of apps is the number of developers.
Therefore, to a large extent, as long as the number of developers is large, there will be more apps, and the ecosystem will grow.
According to the relevant data released by WWDC, iOS developers are located in 77 countries around the world, with a total number of more than 20 million, and a total of more than 5 million apps have been developed. In China alone, there are 4.4 million developers who have developed more than 1 million apps.
And what about Android?Although there is no exact number, it can be speculated that based on the market share, it has more than 20 million developers, and the number of apps is significantly more than 5 million.
What about the HarmonyOS system?The number of developers was 560,000 in 2018, 1.3 million in 2019, 2.3 million in 2020, and 5.1 million in 2021.
There are the number of programmers, but how many apps are there?
After sifting through the data, the final reliable data is: more than 100, more than 310, hundreds of data, which is really worrying.
However, Huawei has not officially released specific data, and the author believes that the data will not be ideal, which may also be one of the reasons why HarmonyOS is compatible with the Android system.
Compatibility can allow Android users to transition to Hongmeng well, but it also makes Hongmeng inseparable from Android in the short term, and even rumored to be"Android shells"。
In the future, the Red Alliance needs to continue to make efforts in the ecology in order to compete with Android and iOS.
Finally, Hongmeng is an open-source system.
In June 2022, Huawei announced that it would donate Hongmeng's core infrastructure to the OpenAtom Open Source Association. Each company can use the organization's ** equally and create products based on their business needs.
Why publish the core infrastructure?In order to attract more enterprises to build the Hongmeng ecosystem, create more software products, and be more conducive to entering the global market, breaking the monopoly of Android and iOS.
At the same time, the open source can minimize the competition between Huawei and its competitors in terms of systems.
With the development of open source HarmonyOS, more than 300 domestic companies have joined the HarmonyOS ecosystem, including well-known companies such as Midea, OPPO, KDDI, and Supor.
It is necessary to say here: HarmonyOS is Huawei's operating system, and the open source HarmonyOS belongs"Open Source Atom will", the two are not the same. It is Hongmeng that is signed up by major manufacturers for open source, not Huawei's Hongmeng.
With technology, ecology, and open source, Hongmeng will naturally usher in a once-in-a-lifetime development opportunity on the occasion of domestic upgrading, and with the joint efforts of domestic manufacturers, it will inevitably open up a new situation.
This time, OPPO officially announced that it has joined Hongmeng, and it will also give Hongmeng a strong backing, after all, Huawei is currently the only one equipped with Hongmeng's mobile phone system, and OPPO will become the second?
OPPO is the world's leading smartphone manufacturer, with operations in more than 50 countries around the world. OPPO's joining Hongmeng is a brave attempt in itself, and it also breaks the rumors of discord between Huawei and its friends.
With the continuous development of the Hongmeng system, more mobile phone manufacturers will join in the future. At that time, Hongmeng will not only get more technical support, but also burst out with huge energy in ecological construction.
If OPPO, Xiaomi and Vivo fully embrace the Hongmeng system, by 2023, Hongmeng will likely exceed 1.2 billion users and occupy 16% of the market share.
We eagerly look forward to this day and at the same time look forward to the great development of home systems.