Next Tuesday (26), the Chinese company will launch the Mate 70, its first smartphone with an internally developed operating system, HarmonyOS Next – a new competitor for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.
In the newspaper’s assessment Financial Timesthe news shows that the Chinese company was able to establish itself as a major global competitor in the technology sector, despite
This is because, in 2019, the USA started to prevent access to the , forcing the company to develop its own operating system – created based on Android codes, so that existing applications could run on new Huawei devices from then on. .
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However, this was not the company’s long-term response. In fact, Huawei has spent the last few years developing its own operating system, which will now require app creators to make a version compatible with HarmonyOS Next. According to the FT, the company offered developers training and courses to learn how to navigate the new system.
According to Huawei, 15 thousand native applications are already running. However, market agents and experts signaled to the FT that the large-scale adoption of HarmonyOS Next may take time due to incompatibility with popular apps in China, such as WeChat Pay and Baidu, which makes the use of new devices outdated, in addition to the high cost of developing new applications.
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