As the publication notes: "this is another sign of how technologies are breaking up into competing ecosystems of the United States and China." Huawei expects to make Next the third main mobile operating system along with Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
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Huawei has been under US sanctions since 2019, when the company lost access to Google's mobile services, and the first version of HarmonyOS was created using Android's open source code. Then it allowed Android apps to run on Chinese brand phones.
According to the FT, in the first 9 months of 2024, Huawei's sales increased by 30 percent year-on-year, which is proof of the reverse effect of the sanctions imposed on the company. Huawei reports that the original HarmonyOS is already working on 1 billion devices. To date, about 15 thousand applications have been created by developers for the new operating system, the focus is on the most popular and mandatory services in China, such as the WeChat messaging service from Tencent, the Taobao online shopping center from Alibaba and the Meituan food delivery application.
Huawei is the largest manufacturer of mobile devices in China, and the creation of its own OS has become an important step towards strengthening the company's position in the world. There have already been significant changes in consumer preferences in China's domestic market. So, recently we wrote about the decline in demand for iPhone smartphones.
