Chinese OS and software ecosystem
- Thread starter Jiang ZeminFanboy
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Huawei's proprietary HarmonyOS smartphone platform reached 19% of the Chinese market, above Apple's iOS (at 17%) but behind Android (at 64%).
Huawei mobile platform HarmonyOS expands China adoption, tops Apple’s iOS in 2024
The domestic market share of HarmonyOS was ahead of Apple’s iOS for four consecutive quarters last year
I thought they will be using harmony OS for PC in their upcoming notebooks?
The article was talking about re-releasing "old" laptops (2024) based on Intel CPU. It is not wise to migrate HarmonyOS to one year old HWs that were optimized for windows/linux and will be obsolete very very soon.
Anybody know if this is true or just some rumours? I keep hearing this on chinese socmed
Any indications whether "harmonyos on pc" will be an actual desktop class os or just something like a desktop mode android?
I remember they advertised Harmony NEXT as their official true PC OS.
IMO, from a technical perspective it is meaningless to distinguish mobile os (Android) and desktop os, the upcoming HarmonyOS PC.
It may make sense to make difference between desktop OS and mobile OS IN the PAST. They are very different in archetechture. Today computing world is embracing distributed archetecture. Even the traditional Linux/Unix like OS is running in distributed system such as super-computer and computing farm. The new HarmonyOS NEXT is like a distributed OS designed from ground up, instead of Linux being adapted in distributed evironment. The evolution essentially removes the boundry. This is precisely what Huawei has been saying about HarmonyOS. It is a OS for everything.
I hope they make the current gen MatePads running HarmonyOS compatible with PC apps if technically feasible. Would be great to run programming software on larger MatePads once they add it. However, this might lead many to skip buying a laptop and opt for just a MatePad, so I can not predict if they will do it.
It is important to note that there are two HarmonyOSes, up to version 4 and 5 (NEXT). I presume that you are talking about MatePads that run HarmonyOS NEXT. These pads will present similar interface to an user if not identical as their PC counter part.
From functionality point of view, App on pad and PC are compatible. But as pad is inherently weaker in HW, some of the heavy lifting work will be executed in cloud servers, or technically possible to be executed on a companian PC paired with the pad, while a PC can do everything on its own.
However due to the difference of computing power, any serious user will stick to a PC. HarmonyOS NEXT and any distributed OS ONLY decouple OS/SW from HW, they don't make weak HW act (on its own) as strong HW. One who buys a pad alone will have to pay the cloud service for equal power as a PC.