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Huawei's original "HarmonyOS" finally appears on June 2nd
"Generic Android" made in China is finally out.
Huawei will announce the details of "HarmonyOS", which it has been developing independently, on June 2nd.
Even before the embargo by the US government began, Huawei was developing an operating system for the Android branch to manage the indispensable state of Google apps and services. Several TV terminals with HarmonyOS have already been released, but the favorite was released at Huawei's announcement event on June 2, and HarmonyOS will finally be installed in its own smartphone.
However, the initial preview of "HarmonyOS", which is called "HarmonyOS" in Chinese, doesn't look very good, as Ars Technica describes it as "generic Android 10" (and quite lagging).
Even if Huawei has improved the performance by finishing the implementation version of the OS cleanly, there is a problem that HarmonyOS will appear too late in the first place.
Even though Google launched the public beta of Android 12 last week, everyone wonders, "Oh, okay?" For Huawei to release an Android-based operating system about two years ago. It seems that HarmonyOS is prepared as a mobile OS for devices sold in China and abroad, but app developers need to redesign the app to run on HarmonyOS. Huawei App Gallery (app store) needs a considerable catch-up in order to provide apps that are no different from traditional Android devices.
Meanwhile, another news about the OS is that 9to5Google is quietly rolling out "Fuchsia OS" to the original Google Nest Hub. Previously, the original Nest Hub was equipped with Google's Linux-based "Cast OS." "Fuchsia OS" is an OS built from scratch of non-Linux that Google has been developing since 2016, and this time "Fuchsia OS" will finally be installed in Google's smart display products.
"Fuchsia OS" is designed as a flexible OS that can be used for all devices from laptops to small IoT gadgets, and is expected to be Google's comprehensive OS that can eventually replace both Android and Chrome OS. increase. However, as far back as 2016, Fuchsia was announced a long time ago, but the Fuchsia OS installation on the devices on the market was proceeding at a fairly modest pace.
But now that Google has begun rolling out Fuchsia on the original Nest Hub, Huawei may have had more development constraints. We've spent a fair amount of time and money developing our own generic Android, but Google has the potential to move to a whole new operating system in the near future.
It goes without saying that this will have a major impact not only on Huawei, but on all Android developers and app providers around the world.
