Eric Xu Zhijun

Tech war: Huawei sees HarmonyOS breaking the dominance of Android and Apple’s iOS in China

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Tech war: Huawei sees HarmonyOS breaking the dominance of Android and Apple’s iOS in China

That iteration, called HarmonyOS Next, will be a “China-originated, independent and controllable” operating system, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, said at the company’s developer conference on Friday. The Shenzhen-based company launched at the conference a beta version of HarmonyOS Next for developers, with a beta upgrade for consumers expected in August. … Read more

Huawei’s HarmonyOS gears up for faster expansion on back of major apps WeChat and Douyin

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Huawei’s HarmonyOS gears up for faster expansion on back of major apps WeChat and Douyin

Shenzhen-based Huawei is close to reaching a deal with Tencent to make its super app WeChat fully operational on HarmonyOS without sharing any revenue, according to a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources. While Douyin now has a HarmonyOS-compatible version available for download, the Bloomberg report said ByteDance expressed no interest in opening … Read more

Huawei’s HarmonyOS unseats Apple’s iOS to become China’s No 2 mobile operating platform

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Huawei’s HarmonyOS unseats Apple’s iOS to become China’s No 2 mobile operating platform

Huawei Technologies’ mobile platform HarmonyOS has overtaken Apple’s iOS to become the second-biggest mobile operating system in mainland China in the first quarter, according to the latest market data from Counterpoint Research. HarmonyOS accounted for a 17 per cent share in the first quarter to surpass iOS for the first time in the world’s biggest … Read more