Huawei plans to create an ecosystem of applications for its HarmonyOS operating system with which to expand this software outside the borders of China, where it currently leads the list of best-selling mobile phones.
HarmonyOS is Huawei’s self-developed ‘software’, which the technology firm presented in 2019, three months after the United States included it in the blacklist that prohibits American companies from doing business, including Google, responsible for the Android system. present until that moment on their phones.
The technology company plans to create an ecosystem of applications around HarmonyOS, first in China, but with the intention of expanding it internationally, as reported in The Register, which includes the words of Huawei’s rotating president, Eric Xu, at the summit of analysts held in Shenzhen last week.
“In the Chinese market, Huawei smartphone users spend 99 percent of their time on about 5,000 apps. So we decided to dedicate 2024 to migrating these apps to HarmonyOS,” in an effort to unify the operating system and ecosystem. of apps,” Xu said.
Of these 5,000 Android applications that have been set as an initial goal, 4,000 are already being migrated to HarmonyOS, and for the remaining thousand, communication with developers has begun.
In any case, the international expansion will be gradual, and will begin once they complete the migration of applications, since then they will have “a real HarmonyOS: a third mobile operating system for the world,” said the manager, who even points out that they could reach one million applications in the future.
In China, Huawei currently leads the list of best-selling mobile phones with the Mate 60 Pro smartphone, relegating brands like Apple, and has recently announced Pura 70, the new iteration of its flagship P series, which it has renamed, and which has been equipped with a Kirin 9010 processor and a camera with a retractable sensor.
