As a well-known mobile phone manufacturer in China, Huawei's mobile phone products have been recognized and loved by many consumers at home and abroad. In fact, in addition to its excellent technical level in the field of mobile phones, Huawei is also very good in many fields such as communication technology, chip design, and operating system.
For example, in the field of communication technology, Huawei has achieved 5G calls first, and the number of 5G patents it has has surpassed that of many established communication companies such as Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Nokia. In the field of chip design, Huawei not only has excellent Kirin chips, but also a variety of high-performance automotive chips and AI chips.
In the field of operating systems, Huawei has launched the Hongmeng system that is expected to break the monopoly of iOS and Android in the field of mobile phone operation series, and more importantly, the Hongmeng system is not only a mobile phone operating system, but also an operating system for the Internet of Everything, which can connect new energy vehicles, Huawei smart homes and Huawei mobile phones equipped with Huawei's car machine system to achieve more efficient interaction.
The Internet of Everything is also the ability that Google has always wanted to achieve on the Android system, but Google gave up after the failure of the first attempt, so that Google did not expect that the Hongmeng system was the first to realize the Internet of Everything, and the most important thing is that Google suddenly found that the Hongmeng system began to go online and developed rapidly after cutting off Huawei's Android GMS service.
At the recent HarmonyOS developer meeting, Huawei officially announced: HarmonyOS 40 will be the last generation of HarmonyOS compatible with Android apps, and from the next generation of HarmonyOS systems, it will no longer be compatible with Android apps. Not only that, Huawei has also officially started the construction of the HarmonyOS ecosystem and native applications. Some industry insiders said: Huawei has officially "shown its sword".
In fact, Huawei said a long time ago that it is not difficult for Huawei to build an operating system, but how to build an ecosystem. The ecological construction of an operating system cannot be completed by a single enterprise, and it requires the help of many application developers, and it is much easier to obtain the number of users after building a complete ecosystem.
It is precisely for this reason that Huawei did not plan to carry the HarmonyOS system on mobile phones at the beginning, and the positioning of the HarmonyOS system at the beginning was a system of the Internet of Everything. However, after Huawei was included in the entity list by the United States, it was completely cut off by American and Western companies, including not only Bluetooth, chips, etc., but also GSM services and Android systems.
This time the comprehensive supply cut off caused Huawei to basically lose the overseas mobile phone market, and the domestic market was also seriously damaged, and it was from this supply outage that Huawei entered the research and development of comprehensive localization substitution, including the Hongmeng system.
The first and second generation of the HarmonyOS system uses the bottom layer of Android** and is compatible with Android applications, so the HarmonyOS system is also under the guidance of some well-intentioned people and has been accused by many people of "shell Android",What people didn't expect is,HarmonyOS 3.0 when the action of expelling the bottom ** of Android was completed.
This also makes many people in China realize that the Hongmeng system is not a "shell Android", but a planned and slow development to avoid taking too big steps. At that time, many people were expecting that Huawei would no longer be compatible with Android apps and start building native apps.
As a result, Huawei donated the HarmonyOS system to the Open Atom Open Source Association, won the support of many domestic enterprises and universities, and had hundreds of mainstream HarmonyOS native applications, which are enough to meet the basic needs of users.
Foreign media: The United States is about to start paying
Previously, CCTV had praised Huawei by name: it is expected to break through the monopoly of iOS and Android in the field of mobile phone operating systems. Today, Huawei has 700 million users, accounting for 8% of the domestic mobile phone operating system market, and has the support of many well-known domestic enterprises and universities, as well as more than 2.2 million HarmonyOS ecosystem partners.
It can be said that HarmonyOS has changed from "it is expected to break through the monopoly of iOS and Android in the field of mobile operating systems" to "it is breaking through the monopoly of iOS and Android in the field of mobile phone operating systems"!It is no wonder that many foreign media said: The United States is going to start paying!
As mentioned above, the HarmonyOS system was not intended to be applied to Huawei mobile phones at the beginning, and Huawei has also said many times: If it is not disabled, Huawei prefers to use Android, a low-threshold operating system that is publicly available worldwide. To put it bluntly, the development of the HarmonyOS system is actually related to the "reverse assist" of the United States.
Nowadays, the Android system and iOS system mainly used in the world are the American companies Google and Apple, these two operating systems occupy more than 90% of the global mobile phone operating system market share, it can be said that the United States could have enjoyed the "monopoly" in the field of mobile phone operating systems, but it had to let Huawei create HarmonyOS to change the market pattern.
The most important thing is that in addition to the Hongmeng system, domestic mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo have gradually realized the importance of the operating system, and have created self-developed operating systems, such as Xiaomi's surging OS. This means that China's technical level and talent accumulation in the field of operating systems will usher in rapid development, and Biden is estimated to be uncomfortable.
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Many well-known domestic enterprises and universities have helped the development of the HarmonyOS system, and other mobile phone manufacturers have also begun to develop their own ecosystems, which is expected to break the "monopoly" of Android and iOS.