In other words, they think it belongs to Huawei, so it is understandable that China mobile phone manufacturers don't use the open source system of HarmonyOS system. They think that if they use HarmonyOS open source system, they will be influenced or even controlled by Huawei?
Yes, before it was donated to the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation, the HarmonyOS system was developed exclusively by Huawei.
However, after Huawei donated the open source system of HarmonyOS system, Huawei lost any control over the open source system of HarmonyOS system. As Huawei, it has become one of the contributors to the development of open source system in HarmonyOS. Of course, Huawei can and will continue to contribute to the development of open source system in HarmonyOS, but it has no control.
The Open Atomic Open Source Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the development of the global open source industry. It was jointly initiated by many leading technology companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Inspur, 360, Tencent and China Merchants Bank. It was incorporated in June 2020. It is the first foundation in the field of open source in China.
Anyone and any enterprise can use HarmonyOS open source system for free according to the open source agreement, just like Android open source system and Linux open source system.
For a simple example, suppose Xiaomi has also become a contributor to the development of HarmonyOS open source system, or Xiaomi has also developed a mobile phone operating system similar to MIUI based on HarmonyOS open source system, then Xiaomi's position is completely equal to Huawei's.
Xiaomi, the operating system, is completely equivalent to HarmonyOS 2 on Huawei's mobile phone.
Huawei is one of the * * * builders and * * * users of the OpenHarmony open source project.
HarmonyOS System 2 is the commercial version of Huawei's open source project OpenHarmony 2.0, which is aimed at all kinds of smart devices in the whole scene. Huawei is not only a major contributor to OpenHarmony open source projects, but also a contributor to many open source projects such as AOSP, Linux, Linaro and Eclipse. Huawei has always strictly followed the corresponding open source licensing rules.
Huawei also said that in order to protect the digital assets of Huawei's existing and tablet users, HarmonyOS System 2 has realized running existing Android eco-applications on some devices equipped with the system.
In the future, Huawei will continue to promote the development of HarmonyOS's system ecology, so that its partners can quickly develop more competitive intelligent hardware products and services and bring better experiences to consumers.
At present, Huawei has developed many innovative HarmonyOS ecosystem products with its partners, including smart home equipment, smart sports health equipment and smart office equipment.
Lao Wang believes that the HarmonyOS system may not have much impact on the mobile phone industry in the short term, but in the long run, the HarmonyOS system can be applied to the terminal equipment in the whole scene to realize cross-terminal collaboration, car-machine interconnection and wearable device interconnection, which is a key step for Huawei's ecological expansion and an important layout in the Internet of Things era.
Then why did Huawei donate the operating system of HarmonyOS System? Then Huawei directly said a "big grievance."
When it didn't come out, it was PPT OS；; It came out and said it was an Android doll.
Didn't donate, saying that your family wants to engage in technology monopoly; Donated, and questioned whether you really donated; For personal use, it is said that the country will be defeated.
For peers; Advocate everyone to use it together, saying that you have ulterior motives; You didn't say anything, saying you were guilty; You want to gather a single spark, and why do you say that you are wishful thinking?
No source code, say why you have traces of Android; With the source code, why not be compatible with Android? ...
After HarmonyOS System 2 appeared in HarmonyOS System, it once caused different voices from all walks of life, and even a friend publicly stated that he would not use the operating system of HarmonyOS System. There are also other mobile phone friends in the industry's evaluation of HarmonyOS system:
OPPO: In the mobile phone business, Huawei is a competitor and can't hold its own destiny in the hands of others.
Xiaomi: Huawei is currently sanctioned by the United States, and Xiaomi relies heavily on Qualcomm chips. In order to avoid risks, HarmonyOS system will not be considered for the time being.
Glory: Android is still the first choice, but with the development of the times, HarmonyOS system is not excluded.
In this context, Huawei reiterated the positioning of HarmonyOS system in its latest internal notification document.
The notice mentioned that the "HarmonyOS system operating system" lacks standardized expression and unified caliber, which leads to inconsistent internal understanding and external expression, and easily leads to confusion. In order to standardize the communication caliber of HarmonyOS system, after CBG discussion, a unified communication caliber of HarmonyOS system was formed.
In fact, Openharmony and HarmonyOS (HarmonyOS system operating system) are two completely different concepts.
Huawei extracted the basic functions from the HarmonyOS system, packaged them into a successful project called "Openharmony" and donated them to the Atomic Open Source Foundation.
Huawei's own commercial version of HarmonyOS System 2 was not donated. This commercial version is also developed based on the open source project OpenHarmony 2.0, which is compatible with AOSP and adds HMS.
And understand this relationship, also can understand why other friends don't want to use HarmonyOS system. Once HarmonyOS system is used, Android will be abandoned, and if HarmonyOS system cannot surpass Android in the eco-industrial chain, it will probably be killed by Android. Symbian and Microsoft's mobile operating systems are living examples.
If Xiaomi OV is compatible with HarmonyOS system, they need to develop their own UI in Openharmony 2. For example, MIUI+ is compatible with previous applications, and the workload is huge, which may not be solved in a short time. At the same time, they also need to consider the risk of Google sanctioning them abroad.
If all mobile phone manufacturers use the same system, even LOGO, and development depends on Huawei, how can the strength of other mobile phone manufacturers be reflected? How to reflect the unique characteristics? What is the selling point?
Obviously, based on the same HarmonyOS system OpenHarmony OS, there is not much problem, which is similar to the current Android mobile phone brand at the bottom, but different at the top. However, they are unwilling to let other mobile phone brands directly carry Huawei's original HarmonyOS System 2.
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Lao Wang, HarmonyOS system developer, official account of WeChat, dedicated to sharing the knowledge of dry goods development in HarmonyOS system.