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> That makes it challenging for others to get in. It isn't impossible, but it's really challenging. Huawei made Harmony OS smartphones in 2 years. That said, t
by Aunche 11mo ago
> That makes it challenging for others to get in. It isn't impossible, but it's really challenging.
Huawei made Harmony OS smartphones in 2 years. That said, they were uniquely motivated by the Google Mobile Services ban, Chinese state support, and likely had set the groundworks for such a transition much earlier.
- shagie 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS#Early_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS#Early_development > Reports surrounding an in-house operating system being developed by Huawei date back as far as 2012 in R&D stages with HarmonyOS NEXT system stack going back as early as 2015. It wasn't green field to release in two years and likely had almost a decade of prep. It probably got additional resources with the Google Mobile Services ban... but even without that it would likely have shown up within the next few years.
- dzikimarian 11mo agoThat, btw shows another problem - Huawei has really nice hardware and in theory, their os runs android apps. In practice some apps run fine, but many are degraded or not running at all due to dependency on Google Play services, "security checks" and DRMs.