Final yr, months after getting banned by the US from utilizing Google’s Android working system, Huawei launched its personal HarmonyOS (aka HongMeng OS) and new units powered by the identical are making their solution to the market.

In a latest occasion in China, Wang Chenglu, Software program Chief at Huawei Shopper Enterprise Software program Division, revealed some details about the corporate’s plan with this new working system.

He mentioned that the software program isn’t a duplicate of Google‘s Android or Apple‘s iOS that are designed for simply smartphones. Not like these working programs, the HarmonyOS is made for a variety of units, from smartphones to the Web of Issues.

Explaining the reasoning, he provides that smartphone shipments have been declining because the final couple of years and the COVID-19 pandemic has made the market worse. He additional provides that the utilization of smartphones has reached its saturation level.

Whereas the ecosystem of units surrounding smartphones is growing, equivalent to wearables and good house merchandise, the issue is that the majority of them run on totally different items of software program. Huawei is aiming to unravel that situation with HarmonyOS, permitting customers to have consistency throughout a spread of units.

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He has additionally added that contract to what most stories point out, the HarmonyOS wasn’t developed as a substitute for Android after the Chinese language firm was restricted from utilizing Google’s system. He says that Huawei began engaged on its in-house working system in the yr 2016.

HarmonyOS has been developed as a single system for use throughout vary of {hardware} — from small to giant, shopper to enterprise, and compatibility with totally different platforms. The corporate has already launched an up to date model of the identical, dubbed HarmonyOS 2.0.

The Chinese language large is now hoping to put in its personal working system in 200 million units by the top of this yr. Huawei can even permit different corporations to make use of HarmonyOS on their units, which ought to account for round 100 million units, aiming to succeed in a complete of 300 to 400 million units this yr.

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