With the development of China's economy, the demand for Chinese smartphones is increasing, the market scale is expanding, and more and more domestic smartphone companies are emerging.
According to relevant data, among the top ten smartphone companies in terms of shipments in 2022, 8 are Chinese companies, and well-known domestic mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor, OPPO, and vivo have been on the list, and China has become the country with the largest number of smartphone manufacturing and shipments in the world for many years.
There is no doubt that China's mobile phone companies are developing very rapidly, not only occupying a large market share in China, but also beginning to gradually go abroad, and are also recognized and loved by consumers in foreign markets. For example, in the Indian mobile phone market, three of the top five mobile phone companies in terms of shipments are Chinese companies, and Xiaomi has become the largest company in the Indian market for many consecutive times.
However, for Chinese smartphone manufacturers, there have been two very critical problems that have not been solved, that is, chips and operating systems. Domestic smartphone companies generally use Qualcomm's Snapdragon series chips, and in recent years, with the rise of MediaTek, some models are equipped with MediaTek's Dimensity chips.
In terms of operating system, it basically uses Google's Android operating system. As a result, Chinese mobile phone manufacturers shipping a mobile phone not only have to spend money to buy chips, but also have to pay licensing fees. Even in some cases, the profits earned by domestic mobile phone manufacturers from shipping a mobile phone are not as much as Qualcomm earns with chips and licensing fees.
The problem of lack of cores and souls has also attracted the attention of domestic mobile phone manufacturers, so in recent years, domestic mobile phone companies have also begun to independently develop operating systems. For example, Xiaomi recently launched the surging OS system, vivo has developed the Blue River operating system, and OPPO has also launched the Pandanar operating system.
However, the most eye-catching thing is actually Huawei's Hongmeng system, after all, this is not only the earliest mobile phone operating system independently developed in China, but also the first domestic operating system to announce that it will remove the bottom layer of Android**, and it is no longer compatible with Android applications.
In fact, whether it is Huawei's Hongmeng system or Xiaomi's surging OS, etc., it is not a simple mobile phone operating system, but an operating system for the Internet of Everything. To put it bluntly, the traditional operating system such as Google's Android system, Apple's iOS system can only be used on mobile phones, but the operating system of the Internet of Everything is common on mobile phones, new energy vehicles and other smart devices.
This also means that the HarmonyOS system can not only be used on mobile phones, but also on new energy vehicles equipped with Huawei's car machine system, as well as Huawei's watches and some other smartphones, Xiaomi's surging OS is also a similar situation.
Among the many domestic operating systems, Huawei's HarmonyOS system should be regarded as one of the most advanced systems, after all, the HarmonyOS system not only started research and development relatively early, but also the only one that announced that it is no longer compatible with Android applications, and began to build an ecological chain and an operating system with native application layout.
Not long ago, Huawei officially announced that it was going to start the layout of native applications, and said that HarmonyOS 40 will be the last version of the HarmonyOS compatible with Android apps. After this news came out, it quickly attracted widespread attention at home and abroad, and the most important thing is that many manufacturers have chosen to join the Hongmeng system and start the construction of Hongmeng native applications.
Judging from the current news, Tencent, Alibaba, Meituan, Didi and other well-known Internet companies have announced that they have reached a strategic cooperation with the Hongmeng system, and the next application will be developed in the Hongmeng version, at present, the Hongmeng system has more than 100 native applications, covering the vast majority of mainstream applications in China, which can meet the needs of users.
At the most, there is news that GAC is equipped with Hongmeng's car machine system on the Trumpchi M8 Master Edition, and Coolpad also announced that it will be Hongmeng 3Version 2 is integrated into the Spreadtrum platform. Some industry insiders said: It basically means that these two companies have also joined the "Harmony Club".
In fact, at present, a number of domestic universities have announced the creation of Hongmeng application classes, and many domestic enterprises and banks have accessed the Hongmeng system. This undoubtedly means that the development of the Hongmeng system has been helped by many domestic enterprises and universities, which will be conducive to the development of the Hongmeng system.
Even CCTV has praised the Hongmeng system by name, believing that the Hongmeng system is expected to break the monopoly of iOS and Android systems in the field of operating systems and help China's operating system achieve breakthroughs.
I have to say,It is not easy for the Hongmeng system to get to this point,During this period, there have been many difficulties and doubts,Even many people have questioned the Hongmeng system as a "shell Android",Now the Hongmeng system can also get rid of this title。
In 2012, Huawei believed that the future intelligent era needed an operating system that could adapt to a variety of devices, which is the current concept of the Internet of Everything. Out of this idea, Huawei officially started the HarmonyOS project in 2016 and devoted itself to the research and development of the operating system.
It is worth noting that at the beginning, Huawei did not plan to apply the HarmonyOS system to smartphones, after all, the smartphone operating system market was basically monopolized by Android and iOS at that time, and Huawei mobile phones were also using Android systems. It's not easy to get into your phone's operating system.
In 2019, Huawei released the first developer preview version of the HarmonyOS system, and then in 2020, Huawei officially released HarmonyOS 2Version 0, which can support a variety of devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and TVs. This also means that the HarmonyOS system has officially begun to be available to developers and consumers.
It is estimated that some people will be curious, why did Huawei obviously not plan to let the HarmonyOS app on the mobile phone at the beginning, but it was carried on the mobile phone when it was officially released?This is actually because Huawei was included in the entity list by the United States, and American companies have cut off supply to Huawei, and even the Android system can no longer be used.
In 2021, the HarmonyOS system began to replace the Android system on Huawei mobile phones, and the number of users of the HarmonyOS system began to grow rapidly, and the market share occupied by the HarmonyOS system continued to expand. However, it is worth noting that the HarmonyOS system is still using the bottom layer of Android at this time** and is compatible with Android applications.
On July 27, 2022, HarmonyOS 30 release, although this version of the HarmonyOS system is still compatible with Android applications, but it has completely stopped using the underlying layer of Android**.
In August 2024, Huawei released HarmonyOS 40, this is also the last version of HarmonyOS that has been compatible with Android applications, which means that from the next generation of HarmonyOS, it is "pureblood".