Does the Chinese OS harmony that take off the veil exceeds Android?

The Chinese basic software (OS) has finally taken off the veil.It is a smartphone version of the "Komo" (English name, harmony) developed by the country's leading news giant, Huawei (Huawei).On the night of June 2, we started providing to compatible models at the same time as the announcement.The Internet was full of the comments of the downloaded users.The harmony of Google's "Android" and Apple's "iOS" hit the smartphone OS field, which is dominant, but behind the scenes, there is also a aim for the next generation digital hegemony.I explored that ability and strategy.[Yoshinori Ogura/China General Bureau]

Pure domestic OS created by the "Trade War"

Before introducing the contents of the harmony, let's first overcome the smartphone OS market.The smartphone OS is currently 99 % of the share of Android and iOS.For iOS used only by Apple products, Android is used in a wide range of models, such as Samsung Electronics Galaxy and Sharp's AQUOS, and conventional Huawei smartphones and tablets have also used Android.

However, the situation has changed completely in the US -China trade war, which was intensifying in 2019 during the former US Trump administration.Huawei was subject to US exports regulations because of its military technology, making it difficult to receive new OS supply and maintenance from U.S. companies, Google.

Being unable to use the OS means that familiar apps such as "Google Map" and "G Mail" will not be installed.Therefore, it was the harmony announced this time that Huawei was working on the development.Huawei has announced a policy that not only smartphones to be released in the future, but also about 100 types of terminals that have been sold so far, including tablets, can use harmony.In the OS field, which is the brain of a smartphone, we appealed to the inside and outside of Japan to promote domesticization at once.

The movement is smooth and the cooperation is both ...

Harmony is likely to tell not only Huawei but also the future of the Chinese digital industry in the future.So how is that ability?

The day after the announcement, I found a young man who downloaded the harmony to his terminal.It is King, a graduate student living in Beijing.Chinese Internet Exchange Service (SNS) ...