The birth of the HarmonyOS operating system is a major change in the field of mobile operating systems for more than ten years, and Microsoft, Nokia, and Samsung all want to break this pattern, but they all end up failing, but HarmonyOS has finally become the world's third largest mobile phone operating system under the impetus of the "ban" and the help of the Chinese people.
However, Hongmeng was able to get to this point, and it was not as smooth sailing as imagined, and even "the enemy on the back of the belly" and "full of dangers"!
Externally, due to the adoption of the Android-compatible model of HarmonyOS, in order to avoid using its own ecology to grab its own market share, Google has launched the standard package format AAB (Android App Bundle), the purpose of which is to increase the difficulty of developers adapting to the HarmonyOS system.
Internally, many mobile phone manufacturers have chosen to be silent about whether to adopt Hongmeng, which is understandable, after all, it is necessary to take into account overseas markets, but, but in terms of ecology, some developers even do "anti-optimization" to Hongmeng, adding resistance to the development of Hongmeng.
When Huawei officially announced the "pure-blooded Hongmeng", whether it is Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, Xiaohongshu, Qunar, etc., they all announced to join the construction of Huawei's native HarmonyOS ecosystem, and in the past month or so, an average of one new partner has announced joining Huawei's HarmonyOS ecosystem every day. According to the statistics of Jiemian News, more than 100 companies have joined the HarmonyOS native application camp, covering almost all fields such as audio-visual entertainment, news reading, tourism and accommodation, financial management, and games.
Since its release in 2019, it has been more than four years, why did Internet giants suddenly choose to embrace Huawei during this time?The "truth" behind it is too realistic!
First of all, Huawei has solved the problem of mass production of chips, if Huawei still relies on Qualcomm chips to survive, the uncertain factors of the outside world once made a third-party research agency think that "the HarmonyOS system will be completely zeroed in 2024". However, with the return of the Mate60 series and 5G Kirin chips, the industry is generally optimistic about the rapid recovery of Huawei's mobile phone shipments, and even Ming-Chi Kuo's shipments are expected to exceed 60 million units in 2024, which is the No. in the Chinese market1, and Huawei and Apple are brands with high premiums, and their potential commercial value is naturally very high.
Secondly, for the sake of "freedom of computing power". Since 2023, the global Internet industry has ushered in a new transformation, and AI has become a "new outlet" in the Internet era.
However, the United States has held AI hegemony for a long time, especially the American chip giant Nvidia, which has almost monopolized the entire industry with its computing power and ecological advantages, and domestic companies have a high dependence on NVIDIA. But since last year, the ban has begun to penetrate into the field of AI chips, and this year it is still increasing layer by layer, even the castrated version of the chip is hard to find.
In the AI era, Internet giants know very well that computing power is the core infrastructure, and Huawei is one of the few manufacturers that can provide a "computing power base" for Chinese enterprises, which can fully help Chinese enterprises achieve "computing power freedom". For example, Huawei's AI chip Ascend 910B ranks among the first echelon of domestic AI chips, and its performance is basically the same as that of NVIDIA's high-end AI chip A100, so you don't have to worry too much about computing power. The all-scenario AI solution based on the Ascend processor provides comprehensive and reliable support for the application and development of AI for Internet enterprises.
Previously, some domestic Internet giants believed that operating in China would not break into the "comfort zone" of the United States and would not be sanctioned by the West, but now the chip ban in the United States is no longer aimed at certain companies, but has been extended to the entire industry.
Therefore, domestic enterprises have to work closely together to build a more complete technology ecosystem, and only in this way can they grasp the development initiative in the future market competition.
Salary Yuetong