A VIEW OF DONGGUAN, CHINA. IT IS NEAR CHINA's HIGH TECH CITY, SHENZEN, JUST 60 MILES FROM HONG KONG
Posted on 08/11/2019 10:11:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In Dongguan, China, at the Huawei Developers' Conference, Huawei executives revealed the company's plans for the future. Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's Business Group, quickly unveiled the new Huawei operating system, called Harmony OS (called Hongmeng in China but not overseas).
Harmony is not a mobile phone system to replace Android but rather is designed to work on devices from tablets to phones, smartwatches to cars and much else besides. And one other key thing: it's open-source. This last fact gave rise to the biggest cheer in the basketball stadium Huawei had taken over for the event.
It means that Harmony can be adopted by third-party manufacturers who want to ensure their Internet of Things devices can talk to others.
While it's been confirmed that current devices such as the Huawei P30 Pro will be able to receive the next version of Google's phone operating system, Android Q, it's not clear yet what will happen to future devices.
So, developing a new operating system that doesn’t rely on American software could be a wise way for the company to be prepared while sanctions from the U.S. government are still in place.
Still, Huawei is very clear that it doesn’t want to abandon Android, saying it wanted to keep working with its American partners. Switching to Harmony would only happen if Huawei was forbidden to use Android. Richard Yu said that leaving Android behind was very much Plan B.
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DongDung, China. Must be a wonderful place.
Oh, sorry, DongGuano, China. Still, must be a wonderful place.
NO WAY would I use a Chinese operating system... for obvious reasons!!
China is becoming more and more a dictatorship, abandoning any pretense of thoughts of freedom. All corporations in China are effectively government controlled even if they are technically corporately owned. You put a chinese OS on a system, it is giving the government a door into the phone, etc.
Yes, yes! We need more China-based operating systems! Because the Chines are famous for keeping government-sponsored spyware out of their products.
I actually don’t consider this new OS a bad thing. Let it compete in the marketplace to see if it can stand up against the others.
We, the consumers will decide if it is worth purchasing.
There’s actually a HarmonyOS on GitHub and all commits are from a single user. So it’s not a development repo. I am guessing it’s also a fork of Android, probably in violation of some licensing agreement..but what do they care.
RE: There’s actually a HarmonyOS on GitHub and all commits are from a single user.
In order for Harmony OS to be popular, they’ll have to entice and give incentives for developers everywhere to create Apps for this OS.
I hear that it is already Open Source, so, if there are any tricky back doors to it, it will eventually be discovered.
So between these two, there is Google which openly spies on its customers, or, China which open spies on its serfs.
Seriously, this is a pick ‘em to me.
In some ways, google is the more dangerous and immediate threat to an average US person (when CWII gets going hotter, google will dump everything they have on identifying us to the commies), but in the global sense, China is a dangerous threat to the US at large.
HAHAHAHA...brilliant sarcasm...I am still laughing!
New Harmny OS! Now with 50% more spying and tracking reporting to the state! They were going. To call it OS1984! but that sounded too Orwellian.
> We, the consumers will decide if it is worth purchasing. <
True enough. And a careful inspection of this OS might show no hidden malware. But I’d bet a couple of thousand yuan that the Chinese will be able to slip something nasty in whenever they feel like it.
It means that Harmony can be adopted by third-party manufacturers who want to ensure their Internet of Things devices can talk to others. And to the PLA.
Harmony OS, huh?
Wonder whose intellectual property they stole it from.
China is brilliant at stealing other people’s ideas, and poor at coming up with their own.
They even stole gunpowder and movable type from barbarian neighbors.
“I hear that it is already Open Source, so, if there are any tricky back doors to it, it will eventually be discovered.”
Knowing the chicoms, I don’t think the actual software in the phones will be from the source that is published. The published source will be just for show. Their larger goal is likely to outlaw Android at some point and only allow a state sanctioned operating system, giving the Chicom government complete control.
Since it’s free, open-source, already well-developed and the most widely used OS on the planet, it seems stupid not to use an in-house derivative of Android.
...We, the consumers will decide if it is worth purchasing.
Except in China
Every touch sends your info back to the Chinese Leader Yogi Bear
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