Challenge the Huawei's unique mobile OS, Google's hegemony -WSJ

[Hong Kong] China, a Chinese telecommunications equipment company, will release basic software (OS) for mobile terminals developed in -house on the 2nd.The aim is to try Google's hegemony over smartphone software, aiming to break away from US suppliers.

Huawei is an online limited event, plans to officially release this new OS "Harmony OS" for many company smartphone products.A smart device that implemented the OS is also announced.

Huawei equipment has been subject to a series of US sanctions since August last year, and has been discontinued with the update of Google's OS for mobile terminals.In addition, access to Google's smartphone soft package, Google Mobile Sabysis (GMS), which is widely used in the industry, was also prevented by sanctions.

One year ago, Huawei's smartphone sales were at the top of the world, and the decrease was stopped.Under these circumstances, the company is willing to sell the Android market monopoly, with the expectation of other mobile terminal companies hiring the harmony OS.

The world's main smartphones, excluding Apple, such as Samsung Electronics in Korea and small rice in China (Xiaomi), are all equipped with Google Android.According to the research company Canalis, Chinese manufacturers account for 57 % of the world's mobile terminal market, and if the harmony OS becomes a Google OS, it has the potential to switch.

But persuading the use of harmony OS may be a difficult struggle.The Androids are swollen in the smartphone market, with software developer existing networks and billions of consumers are used to Android interfaces.Equipped with an Android with more than eight in 10 smartphones sold.No comments have been obtained from Google's spokeswoman.

Other companies that have challenged Google's hegemony have not been very successful.Samsung released the competitive OS "Tizen" many years ago, but could not be spread among smartphone users.Microsoft also tried to sell a smartphone with the Windows OS, but was hardly successful.

Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, has been focusing on software since last year, when the cheap smartphone category was sold in a hurry to reduce the dependence on US -made technology.These initiatives are becoming more urgent, as the US government stopped purchasing a semiconductor from Huawei last August.

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The company's consumer software manager, Wan Cingle, will install Harmony OS on more than 200 million Huawei terminals, including smartphones and more than 100 million companies made by smartphones this year.It is a goal.

Huawei has little details about the appearance and comfort of the new OS.The harmony OS was announced in 2019 in the development of the developer meeting held in Dongguan City, southern China.Since then, it has been deployed for various consumer terminals such as laptops, personal computers, and smartwatches, but releases for smartphones have been forgotten.

For many years, Huawei has been working on developers for program development for his own app store "Up Gallery".The company has already announced multiple apps that have been replaced by apps that have been stopped.For example, "Petal Map" is a "Google Map" and "Petal Search" is a program that is replaced by a smartphone Google search bar.

The new OS does not restore popular apps such as "Facebook", "YouTube", a video -shared "Facebook", and "Instagram" shared images.Many of these apps have long been unusable in China, the world's largest smartphone market.