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What I wonder is why Huawei isn't building its operating system on top of Android Open Source Project. I can't find much detail on HongMeng (which translates to
by DiogenesKynikos 7y ago
What I wonder is why Huawei isn't building its operating system on top of Android Open Source Project. I can't find much detail on HongMeng (which translates to "Red Dream," I think), but it seems to be separate from AOSP.
It seems to me that recreating Google's proprietary APIs and services on top of AOSP would be the most realistic way forward, and the most likely to gain traction with developers.
The ban on doing business with Huawei shows that one person, the US President, can single-handedly decide tank a major corporation with the stroke of a pen. Relying on closed-source American tech is a liability in this sort of environment, so there might be a window of opportunity to build an open variant of Android (as opposed to just AOSP).
- HillaryBriss 7y ago> translates to "Red Dream" Wikipedia adds some meaning, but I don't know if this is what Huawei intends: HongMeng is a character in the Daoist text Zhuangzi and a metaphor for the "primordial world, primeval chaos" in Chinese creation myths. Like many Zhuangist names, Hong Meng is a word play, translated as "Mists-of-Chaos", "Vast Obscurity", "Big Concealment", "Vital Principle", "Natural Energy" and "Big Goose Dummy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Meng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Meng
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoI had only seen the name in Western media, without the characters. My guess was wrong, on both the characters! 鸿 (Hóng) means "large, huge, great," and 蒙 (Méng) means "mist." "Great Mist" is not a promising name for a codebase.
- silversconfused 7y agoIt's a tool for consuming cloud services. "Great mist" sure sounds rather cloudy to me.