With five days to go before September 15, Huawei Harmony OS 2.0 arrived at the venue on time.

On September 10, Huawei will hold a three-day dialogue and brainstorming session on Harmony OS, HMS Core and EMUI 11, based on Google’s Android operating system, at Huawei University in Shenzhen, China.

Since May last year, the United States has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Huawei. Affected by the entity list, Huawei has no operating system and no chips available, and September 15 is the deadline for cutting off supply. At the same time, recently from the industry chain news, Korean and American memory chip manufacturers Samsung, Hynix, Micron will also continue to cut supply.

Against this backdrop of constant bad news, the release of Hongmeng 2.0 is particularly sad. Compared with the 2019 Huawei Developer Conference, yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business, also cut his speaking time to 18 minutes, a third of last year’s.

At the conference, Yu Chengdong slightly excited, dignified, “This developer conference, Huawei is in a difficult period of the third round of sanctions by the United States.

As usual, Yu first reviewed the achievements of Huawei’s consumer business in the past nine years. In 2012, Yu officially took over Huawei’s terminal business. Under Yu’s leadership, Huawei’s mobile phone sales increased from 30 million units to 240 million units. Despite three rounds of attacks by the United States, Huawei’s consumer business still maintained rapid growth.

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“Huawei’s strength remains strong, with the world’s largest mobile and wearable market, fully upgraded Hongmeng Systems 2.0, the world’s third largest mobile app ecosystem with 1.8 million developers, and its determination to fully open up its hardware and software capabilities to developers, all bode well for the rise of this new technology ecosystem.” Yu said.

At the end of the speech, Yu mentioned TikTok, which has been caught in the “trap” of the US. “I hope Huawei’s app can become a successful international app like TikTok.” There’s a bit of an affinity between the pros.

In 2019, Huawei held its first developer conference. A full year later, events have escalated and evolved beyond anyone’s imagination. How huawei Hongmeng system has been innovated to cope with external blockade has become a question in the minds of many industry insiders.

One year later, how has Hongmeng changed?

In fact, three days before the press conference, Yu Chengdong has revealed to the outside world the real progress of the current stage of Hongmeng operating system, “Hongmeng operating system has invested hundreds of millions, the experience has been improving, reaching the level of 70%-80% android, every day, week and month. We began to build our own ecology, ecology to do.”

According to Yu chengdong, in order to build a new ecological platform, Huawei Hongmeng has gathered 1.8 million developers, 490 million active users, 96,000 applications integrated WITH HMS, and a total of 261 billion applications distributed.

With AI, distributed, image, communication, AR map (Huawei river map technology) graphics rendering and other technologies, HMS Core 5.0 software and hardware capabilities are fully open, especially in the aspect of scene APIs has surpassed Google’S GMS Core, 14 times more than last year.

From the change of data, we can intuitively feel the rapid growth of Huawei Hongmeng ecology. As Ping an Zhang, president of Huawei’s consumer business cloud services, said last year huawei planted a seed that has sprouted this year.

Last year, Huawei Harmony OS 1.0 was defined as a future-oriented distributed operating system that includes distributed capabilities, one-time development, multiple deployments, and high security and reliability based on formal verification. This year, Harmony OS 2.0 has been defined as fully enabling the full scene ecology, including cross-device, service flow, speed direct, visual and spoken, and privacy security capabilities.

According to Yu’s timeline of Harmony OS 2.0’s Beta release for app developers, Harmony OS 2.0 will be available for watches, cars, and large-screen devices on September 10, 2020, and for mobile devices in December 2020. Realize the leapfrog development of different terminals.

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Yu chengdong said, “There is no doubt whether Huawei Hongmeng is a closed or open system. Huawei Hongmeng will be fully open and enable Huawei’s open ecosystem to developers and ecological partners around the world.”

Open ecology cannot leave the support of open source ecology naturally. According to the signpost of Hongmeng Open Source, on September 10, Hongmeng will open source for terminal devices with less than 128MB memory, and in October 2021, it will open source for all devices with more than 4GB memory. Developers around the world will share Huawei’s global network and channels. Finally, Yu offered a vision of how apps on mobile devices can be used in cars.

One noticeable change from last year’s DEVELOPER conference is that the concept of “microkernel” has been relegated to the background and “distributed” capabilities have been mentioned frequently.

About micro – kernel, many views differ, once caused the industry warm discussion. From the perspective of software resources, the microkernel can reduce accumulation and improve the speed of internal operations. Compared with Android system, it can allocate resources more effectively, improve the response speed of APP and make it safer. But at this year’s developer conference, microkernels made zero appearances, and instead focused on distributed soft bus, distributed data management, and security.

In addition to the change in conceptual focus, Huawei also released several key products, such as EMUI 11, which will be installed in the upcoming flagship phone Mate 40 series, Huawei search engine for mobile, and Research platform focusing on front-end Research.

With so many iterations and updates in the cooperation of products, technical capabilities and ecological partners, Huawei has made every effort to break the soil, sprout and grow into a towering tree in the industry. But is it possible for Huawei to break out of the existing operating system market and become the third largest operating system behind Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android?

The systems war has just begun

The operating system market is never short of “rich second generation entrepreneurs”.

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Samsung’s Tizen, Nokia’s Symbian, BlackBerry OS, and China’s Alibaba YunOS all had brief brilliant moments in their attempts to challenge the market position of apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, but eventually they all failed. None of them worked.

There are similar reasons for success, but different reasons for failure.

“Nokia was the ruler and defender at the beginning, and did not embrace the rapidly expanding open source ecosystem of Android with an open mind. Finally, with the decline of sales, the system carrier was reduced, and its ecosystem gradually failed to compete with Android. “Blackberry, Microsoft and Samsung are too small and too closed to attract a large number of developers to build and optimize their ecosystems.” IDC analyst Wang Xi said.

Wang xi further told Geek Park that the domestic operating system has not reached cooperation with the leading phone manufacturers, and its function is not good. Although the small ecological start is similar, but in comparison, Google Android is an open source ecosystem, in the early stage of the development of smart phones with the help of global programmers to improve the rapid iteration, extensive layout of partners, many partners later developed into mobile phone giants in the industry.

Therefore, the success of mobile operating systems requires three elements: functional technology, ecology, and alliances.

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However, the era has been upgraded from a single dimensional space to the stage of interconnection of all things, and the technological gap between manufacturers is getting smaller and smaller. Technology can no longer become an obstacle for the new generation of operating system to break the market monopoly of the old generation. The real limiting factor lies in the construction of ecology.

At the press conference, Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei Consumer Business Software Department, mentioned the difficulties faced by Huawei Hongmeng, “There is an order of magnitude difference in the difficulty of doing technology and ecology. Operating system involves a wide range of ecology, many fields and deep content, which is very difficult.” Mr. Wang called on all forces in China to unite.

This is why Yu repeatedly stressed the importance of developers, “No one can extinguish the stars in the sky, every developer is a spark of fire huawei wants to gather.”

Huawei has more than doubled the number of developers compared to last year, but it is only the first step in a long journey compared to the nearly 14 million developers on Google’s Android. Faced with a third and more severe round of sanctions, Huawei has no choice but to fight back.

Source: Geek Park