By Pascal Oparada
Social Media/Tech Reporter
After being blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce Department following the trade war between it and China, China-based Tech Company, Huawei had developed its own Operating System called HarmonyOS.
The company’s CEO, Richard Yu said HarmonyOS is a distributed OS that allows developers develop their apps once, then flexibly deploy them across a wide range of devices.
This is different from Android and Apples iOS which are separate with the companies’ other platforms.
HarmonyOS should arrive to other devices including wearables and cars in the next three years. his is more akin to Samsung’s Tizen, which was also once touted as an alternative to Android but is now mainly powering the company’s smart TVs and wearables.
Besides its distributed nature, Huawei also highlights HarmonyOS “microkernel architecture,” meaning the OS’ kernel will be extremely small, making HarmonyOS both fast and resilient to attacks.
There’s also something called “Deterministic Latency Engine,” which should make HarmonyOS better at prioritizing tasks and scheduling them in advance, which, again, should improve performance.
Notably, Google is also working on a microkernel-based, multi-platform operating system called Fuchsia. HarmonyOS will be released as a worldwide, open-source platform.
However, Huawei says it plans to “lay the foundations” of HarmonyOS in China, and expand globally later. Huawei’s position in the U.S. has improved somewhat in June, with president Trump allowing the company to buy some U.S. technology.
This could mean that Huawei will be able to continue producing Android-based smartphones as before, while slowly developing HarmonyOS as a sort of backup.
