This is one of the most fascinating webinars I've looked at, about 4th industrial revolution. A Huawei exec was part of the panel and really talked about how Huawei technology in 5G, AI, robotics and IoT is being used in industries and especially in this mining case. More facsinating than anything else is the discussion about Harmony OS being used in industries. Harmony is designed to work with not just phones, tablets and PCs, but also industrial machines, wearables and everything else. This brings tremendous synergy between every phone, tablet and IoT devices that are using Harmony. In someways, Android is like that too, but I think Harmony is trying to encompass an even large world than Android is. China has significant advantages in industrial usage that America doesn't have. Therefore, Android is not developed to work with mining industry machines, but Harmony is. On top of that, devices using Harmony can naturally utilize 5G technology for communication and allow them to be controlled remotely by operators so that people are not put in danger in doing those work. David Goldman in fact asked the German guest if they have something like that in Europe. And Germany does not.
Huawei exec also talked about how large part of Chinese industries are using Industry 2.5. How they can upgrade directly to Industry 4.0 to gain an advantage (leap over their competition).
This is quite interesting. Reminds me of what they are doing right now with EVs and solar/wind industries. China is targeting the future industries while Europeans have been resting on their knowledge or industry 3.0 experience. At some point, every country is going to want to use 5G, AI, robotics and IoT and Europeans can't offer that. Beyond that, Huawei execs talked about how China continues to buy machines from Western countries and those machines can be made to work with Harmony OS. Think about that, having Chinese customers push their Western machine makers to use Harmony OS so that those machines can work better with rest of China's tech infrastructure. And if those companies like Harmony OS, now all the industrial machines are going to use Harmony OS rather than their self developed OS. One thing we find in EV is that Europeans don't have a great software industry. VW has to rely on CARIAD and Horizon Robotics for their future AV project. Now, Western intelligence haven't caught onto this possibility yet, but it's one where Chinese customers can nudget their European partners toward.