Recently, InfoQ participated in a media communication meeting with the theme of "Building HarmonyOS Ecosystem". The interviewee was Yang Haisong, Vice President of Huawei Consumer BG Software Department.

At this communication meeting, Yang Haisong elaborated and answered questions one by one on the boundaries, planning, goals and expectations of the HarmonyOS ecosystem.

Huawei once proposed that "ecological union can break through boundaries and create infinite possibilities." Yang Haisong said that for Hongmeng, its boundaries can be understood from the following points: We have entered the era of the Internet of Everything. In the past ten years, per capita

The number of IoT devices has increased fivefold.

Although the number of IoT devices around us continues to increase, the experience is fragmented.

The so-called breakthrough of physical boundaries is to break through the physical boundaries of each single physical device, using distributed soft buses, distributed data management and distributed security capabilities to integrate all isolated devices into super terminals for consumers in the IoT era.

It brings the ultimate experience of seamless integration.

Current devices, especially IoT devices, are almost always sold once. Once a device is sold, whatever functions it originally had will remain those functions later.

In the future, Huawei hopes to continue to explore and improve the hardware capabilities and experience of current IoT devices through hot software upgrades.

Originally isolated IoT devices can be continuously activated and applied to various areas of consumers' daily necessities, and their functions can be continuously improved.

In this way, the boundaries of time can be broken and everyone can experience the things that are often used and always new.

Whether they are hardware developers or application developers, Huawei hopes to empower its partners to make their products more competitive, so that their products can be used by thousands of people and used by thousands of machines.

In the early days of the HarmonyOS ecosystem, Huawei's top partners would ask this question: "What is my position in your ecosystem?" The answer is very clear.

What Huawei wants is to sell "1+8+N" products and services to developers/partners. They are now doing "N" and making their own products, such as Midea and Joyoung, and we hope that their

The goods can be sold well.

Will Huawei make hoods and home products?

Won't.

This part of the space will be left to partners to innovate, provide services to consumers, and share the value of this part.

It is enough for Huawei to sell its "1+8" well and improve the competitiveness of its products and the stickiness and repurchase of consumers.

We hope that after partners’ products are equipped with HarmonyOS, their competitiveness will be improved, they will get rid of homogeneous competition, increase consumer stickiness, and provide good services to consumers together.

In short, whether they are application developers or device developers, Huawei hopes to use the HarmonyOS ecosystem to empower partners and help them better capture the market space in the era of the Internet of Everything.

For partners and developers, HarmonyOS’s long-term plan is to “have one of three parts of the world.”

Huawei has insight into the historical trends of the mobile OS market. Many giants in the industry have tried to make their own operating systems, including Microsoft, BlackBerry, Nokia, etc.

If an operating system wants to survive and gain a firm foothold, the bottom line of market share is 16%. This is a line of life and death, so now we hope to quickly cross this line of life and death.

For HarmonyOS, this 16% means that Huawei’s self-developed products and third-party products must be able to scale up quickly. At least in the Chinese market, more and more partners need to be able to carry HarmonyOS.

Without a certain installed capacity, consumers will not be able to experience the super terminal experience Huawei envisions.

If only mobile phones are equipped with HarmonyOS, they will not be able to enjoy the experience brought by the integration of multiple devices, so Huawei needs to quickly increase the volume. This is an ecological goal.

With such a big goal, Huawei hopes to serve the majority of developers. Developers are God.

At this year's HDC conference, Huawei has released version 2.0 of HarmonyOS to developers and released four key components to users, including API/SDK, distributed application framework, development tool DevEco2.0, and compiler Ark.

SDK, full set of source code, development tools and development board modules are also released for hardware developers.

Hongmeng’s future plans must be to continuously upgrade according to the needs of developers.

At the same time, Huawei hopes to open source the entire HarmonyOS ecosystem with the vast developer community, and also hopes to reach more and more developers.

From the perspective of mobile OS industry ecological construction, Huawei targets a large number of developers.

In the near future, the number of developers will likely exceed one million.

Faced with such a size, how does Hongmeng provide technical support?

In the early stages of the entire ecological construction, that is, the initial stage of startup from 0 to 1, Huawei will provide technical support based on the open source community.