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- Huawei announced during its developer conference on Thursday that its HarmonyOS operating system will run on phones as soon as next year.
- Harmony will run on a variety of devices, including smartwatches, TVs, and car infotainment systems.
- Harmony is going to replace Android on Huawei devices in the future, giving Huawei more independence from US companies like Google. Huawei is still banned from working with US companies that supply hardware and software for smartphones and other devices.
- HarmonyOS appears to be the equivalent of Google’s Fuchsia OS, an operating system that’s expected to replace Android in the future.
It might not be perfectly clear, but Android’s days are numbered. Google has a replacement operating system in development already, the Fuchsia OS that started appearing in leaks a few years ago. Google has confirmed Fuchsia, stopping short from saying that Fuchsia will replace Android in the future. The new OS would offer Google more control over software updates, which continue to be the worst thing about the entire Android experience. Fuchsia will run on a variety of devices, from smart gadgets and speakers to phones and laptops, and will offer enhanced user privacy and security features. Android apps will be compatible with the new OS, so the transition should be relatively simple. On top of that, Google is already offering developers the tools they need to code an app once and then distribute it to multiple platforms, including Android, iPhone, and probably Fuchsia. That’s the gist of what Fuchsia leaks have been saying in the past few years, and it’s all a great idea.
There’s no guarantee that Google will use Fuchsia on phones, tablets, and laptops instead of Android and Chrome, or that it will happen anytime soon. But that’s the future Google should be aiming for. Before we get to see any of that, we’ll witness Huawei “killing” Android with an operating system of its own that feels a lot like Fuchsia. And Huawei might be in a hurry to do it because of the various issues it had to face since the US government banned the Chinese tech giant from doing business with pretty much any company in the west.
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