Huawei introduces HarmonyOS, its cross platform alternative operating system
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2019
Vasra, 09 Aug 2019Perhaps. Yet c. 2 billion would disagree with you. And manu... moreFacebook is very heavy app. Just use its website.
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- pWD
- 09 Aug 2019
[deleted post]Perhaps. Yet c. 2 billion would disagree with you. And manufacturers need to take that big chunk of the market into account.
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- Sage_LOG
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- 09 Aug 2019
This is great news. I do see two potential issues here, however.
1. Security vulnerabilities and 2. An environment compelling enough to drive migration. In the end, this may be a Huawei exclusive OS like the iOS is for iPhone.
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- 09 Aug 2019
AnonD-816568, 09 Aug 2019If you are old enough you must have seen how the popular op... moreI don't think so. I think it will push Google/android to step up the game. I quite love Android OS because it is my first experience and it is nice.
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- 09 Aug 2019
Open source. That's good. Hoping it succeeds. We need an alternative to that American spyware
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2019
Anonymous, 09 Aug 2019No Root No Android App support Sorry i dont want to loc... moreyou can just try it if you really want it at the first place, they do not demand you at all on the first place
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2019
Alice Deejay, 09 Aug 2019Indeed.
Country-owned companies do it all the time becaus... moreLOL
Huawei is not a country owned company, you can't accept the fact the country helps the growth of the company on international level, FYI facebook, google and IOS also getting your data and stored on cloud there' is no difference at all that's what you call security features but time to time they gather your data without your consent at all...
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- 09 Aug 2019
Gusta, 09 Aug 2019So many people don't like Windows tile design especially on... moreThe live tiles was far ahead of Android! They updated to show new info rather than those dumb notifications that pester me to no END!!! O3O
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- 09 Aug 2019
PTD, 09 Aug 2019Please don’t Mix real OSs from custom builds. Also Symbian ... moreWhere did i say new OS??? So your telling me that harmony OS isn't just forked version of android and Huawei have created from scratch completely new OS in 2 years??
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- 09 Aug 2019
jo, 09 Aug 2019This is a complete Failure but aurora OS have a future Guess you have a crystal ball that could see the future to already know its fate..
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- 09 Aug 2019
War begins. The mistake of Windows Phone is that its license to use is not free. Tizen OS, the application store is very quiet, like a funeral. At this time Google's opportunity is to send a messenger to Huawei to at least use the Google search engine. Seduce her, man! Look into her eyes, gently hold her hand while saying, "will u use me?" If not then a lot of money will fly away.
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- Carl
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- 09 Aug 2019
Really nice see the public born of a new alternative. I'll test it when available for their flagships phones and other devices. If its more efficient and take less resources without loose compatibility and has good developers tools as it seems, it'd remain in my phones.
The best will be if it could be installed third party devices and phones. Imagine an Harmony OS installed in a Samsung S11 beating Android performance ^^ That would be superb!
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- 09 Aug 2019
This is a complete Failure but aurora OS have a future
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- realitychecker
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- 09 Aug 2019
some nice comments and some nasty ones. proof that no one can really please everyone. still, one things remains, that china is a rather large smartphone market to begin with. so there's that.
- Vasra
- pWD
- 09 Aug 2019
Finally competition to Android, which is more than welcome.
However the standard toolchains need to be updated seamlessly to compile for HarmonyOS.
Then on top of that, Huawei needs a globally launhced webstore that supports all the major apps that normal people use: whatsapp. youtube, instagram, snapchat, facebook, local banking, transit and other apps.
AND Huawei needs to offer replacements for:
- youtube
- gmail
- google maps
If google doesn't compile their apps for the new OS and/or IF the HarmonyOS can't run the Google play store versions directly.
It's a big list of IFs, I wish Huawei good luck.
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- 09 Aug 2019
Anonymous, 09 Aug 2019"During the keynote, Richard Yu claimed that HarmonyOS can ... moreIf you are old enough you must have seen how the popular operating system (Symbian & Blackberry) can be replaced by a new operating system (Android) so in the future there is always a possibility of that happening to Android.
Apart from that China is also the world's largest smartphone market so if they can convince the majority of their population to use the Harmony OS it will provide a solid foothold for the development of their operating system.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2019
"During the keynote, Richard Yu claimed that HarmonyOS can theoretically replace Android but for now the company will stick to Google's software on its smartphones for the sake of users and Google’s extensive app portfolio."
read: You ditch android, then your phone sales dwindling..
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- 09 Aug 2019
???, 09 Aug 2019I don't think this will this will end android, bigger more ... morePlease don’t Mix real OSs from custom builds. Also Symbian isn’t a new OS and it’s been rather popular at its time. Don’t confuse past technology with current. When a company fails to move forward things doe out like PalmOS (webOS) or Symbian OS.
As it stands most other mentioned are Android based they aren’t “from scratch” it’s the same deal as Linux distributions based of Ubuntu or Debian stable, this doesn’t make it a new OS as such Cyogen or Amazon custom OS builds do not count as full pledged OSs.
Microsoft failed because its Microsoft and acted rather idiotically with the updates. I remember getting a Lumia it wasn’t bad but being stuck at 7.5 with no easy way to go to 8 and 10.
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2019
veryangrynerd, 09 Aug 2019There is native linux app supoort you need root for?Need root to uninstall all the bloatware spywares installed by OEMs
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- Anonymous
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- 09 Aug 2019
veryangrynerd, 09 Aug 2019There is native linux app supoort you need root for?No android app support out of the box