Monday, April 8th 2024
China Pushes Adoption of Huawei's HarmonyOS to Replace Windows, iOS, and Android
According to ChinaScope, an effort is currently underway to strengthen Huawei's HarmonyOS platform's presence. The local government of Shenzhen has unveiled an ambitious program aimed at supercharging the development of native applications for the operating system. The "Shenzhen Action Plan for Supporting the Development of Native HarmonyOS Open Source Applications in 2024" outlines several key goals to foster a more robust and competitive ecosystem around HarmonyOS. One primary objective is for Shenzhen-based HarmonyOS apps to account for over 10% of China's total by the end of 2024. To facilitate this, the city plans to establish at least two specialized industrial parks dedicated to HarmonyOS software development across various application domains.
Furthermore, the initiative calls for over 1,000 software companies in Shenzhen to obtain HarmonyOS development talent qualifications, underscoring the city's commitment to cultivating a skilled workforce for the platform. Perhaps most impressively, the action plan encourages eligible companies to ramp up their outsourcing services for HarmonyOS app development, with a lofty target of reaching 500,000 HarmonyOS developers. This would represent a significant influx of developer talent focused on the platform if achieved. The Shenzhen government's push aligns with China's broader strategy to reduce reliance on foreign technologies and promote the adoption of domestic alternatives like HarmonyOS. While initially launched by Huawei as a workaround for U.S. sanctions, HarmonyOS has since expanded to power many devices, including smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and TVs.
Sources:
Tom's Hardware, ChinaScope
Furthermore, the initiative calls for over 1,000 software companies in Shenzhen to obtain HarmonyOS development talent qualifications, underscoring the city's commitment to cultivating a skilled workforce for the platform. Perhaps most impressively, the action plan encourages eligible companies to ramp up their outsourcing services for HarmonyOS app development, with a lofty target of reaching 500,000 HarmonyOS developers. This would represent a significant influx of developer talent focused on the platform if achieved. The Shenzhen government's push aligns with China's broader strategy to reduce reliance on foreign technologies and promote the adoption of domestic alternatives like HarmonyOS. While initially launched by Huawei as a workaround for U.S. sanctions, HarmonyOS has since expanded to power many devices, including smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and TVs.
27 Comments on China Pushes Adoption of Huawei's HarmonyOS to Replace Windows, iOS, and Android
TL;DR TF even is a "HarmonyOS"-program?
It's like Google's ChromeOS-Android 'ecosystem'.
Notably, there's even HarmonyOS for Industrial use, like coal mining.
Part of the goal is to ditch reliance as quickly as possible, so it could also be a bridge-gap of sorts.
Why should they believe in US mainstream OS ?
Maybe they're thinking it's the US mainstream OS that currently mining their informations ?
Does anyone really trust Google, Microsoft or Amazon?Android is open source. What Google did from it should not even carry the same name. They forked an open-source project, not Google "abomination".
Thing is, I think Huawei never intended Harmony as PC operating system, so this change is... strange. For standard OS they indeed should have forked Linux (actually, they already have several forks).
Put it this way, if it's just AOSP they would not need to gather 500,000 HarmonyOS developers familiar with arkTS & changjie to support the ecosystem :roll:
I'd rather have my life controlled by the scummy capitalist mega corporations from US, UK, Japan, South Korea and other western countries than by the CCP.
Even they don't want to sudo a bunch of gibberish :laugh:
Java does not have "APIs", it is used to build APIs.