Friends know that in the past few years, the days of Huawei's mobile phone business have been called a bad heart.
Because the chip was stuck in the neck, the original normal release time of the new machine was basically greatly affected.
However, Huawei chose to be tough, never gave up from beginning to end, and launched a self-developed "Hongmeng" operating system in the face of adversity.
A while ago, Huawei launched the "Petal Search Engine" web version for domestic users.
There is a saying that Huawei has nothing to say in terms of technological innovation, and it is true that there are two brushes.
Not a few days ago, Xiao Lei saw that many media had sent the same message: Huawei wants to develop its own browser kernel, which is expected to be done within 2 years.
Why do you want to develop yourself? The reason is that the current four major browser kernels in the world are all developed by foreign countries.
In order to avoid further being necked by foreign cards, Huawei intends to make a browser that belongs to our Chinese.
Although Huawei now has a browser, like other browsers in China, it is based on Google's Chromium open source project.
Small partners can understand this, in fact, these browsers, can be said to be the "shell version" of Google Chrome browser.
From mobile phone operating systems, to search engines, to self-developed browser kernels, Huawei's wave is to fully align with Google.
So, not long after this news came out, many netizens "boiled" and directly raised their hands in the comment area in favor.
Good fellow, when Little Ray first saw the news, he was also in a state of great excitement.
Huawei, self-development, Chinese their own browsers, these words are all together, which hot-blooded youth does not "boil" when they see it?
However, after calming down, Xiao Lei thought about it carefully and found that this matter was not as simple as it seemed.
According to the custom, Xiao Lei found the source of the news release, which turned out to be from a digital blogger who often broke the "Huawei material".
Here's the thing, at a salon, the senior manager of Huawei Browser said that in about two years we can see a better Huawei browser.
Xiao Lei repeatedly looked at the original blog and the picture several times, and did not see what the manager said about the "self-developed kernel".
However, the second paragraph of Weibo is added by the bloggers themselves.
Put the "better Huawei browser" and the four cores of the browser together, and add "China is a blind spot in this regard" at the end.
This ambiguous expression between the lines makes it difficult not to think more about the direction of "Huawei's self-developed browser kernel".
And well, Xiao Lei stared at the knowledge level of this digital blogger, why is it still a little unreliable?
At present, the four major kernels of global browsers are actually the Blink kernel, Trident kernel, Gecko kernel and Webkit kernel.
Weibo has a total of two sentences, missed Blink, and missed Webkit, but there is really yours.
So, originally it may have been just a sentence casually said by the manager, stunned to let the media out of nothing.
The news that "Huawei will develop its own browser kernel within 2 years" has spread like this.
Good guys, seeing this news with a nose and an eye, sources close to Huawei came out to refute the rumors.
Huawei does not have a self-developed browser kernel, but only makes some algorithm innovations and corrections based on the original browser.
Speaking of which, this "boiling" farce is also over.
But then again, self-developed browser kernel, bird food is not Huawei's priority at this stage.
Next, Xiao Lei analyzed it with everyone one by one.
The first point is the cost and technical reasons, even for a large R & D team like Huawei, the difficulty of self-developing the kernel is still very large.
360 Browser has published in "Why does China not have a self-developed browser kernel?" In the article, an example was given.
For example, Google Chrome, when developing the Chromium kernel, Google mobilized more than 1,000 programmers to concentrate on this matter.
According to the annual salary of programmers at that time of 250,000 US dollars, Google's salary alone would have to pay nearly 300 million US dollars a year.
And well, the cost of promotion is several times the cost of research and development, and it is impossible to get down without a dozen or two billion.
Not only is it a burning of money, but the amount of code in a browser is staggering, approaching 24 million lines.
Judging from the size of the project, the amount of code has almost reached the level of half a Windows operating system.
However, in order to perfectly cope with the current global variety of web types, the browser kernel still needs to spend a lot of time to test and tune, and the time cost is high.
Market share is also a big influencing factor, the current browser market share, basically has become a foregone conclusion.
Chrome, which accounts for nearly 65%, is undoubtedly big brother, and the remaining 35% is divided up by other little brothers.
Even a big manufacturer like Microsoft has chosen to abandon its own kernel and turn to the embrace of the Chromium kernel.
Assuming that Huawei really succeeds in developing its own kernel, how many users will switch to Huawei with a convenient browser, and they have to put a big question mark.
August 2021 Global browser market share
Here we must also mention the browser kernel open source, because there is no core level of confidentiality technology here.
And kernels like Chromium, Webkit, and Quantum are all open source and free to use.
Huawei and its own investment of financial and material manpower to re-establish a set of ecosystems from 0 to 1.
Isn't it enough to directly "take the doctrine" and use the open source code that others have matured?
The last point is that Huawei does not need to "repeat the wheel".
If the self-developed kernel is done, the end use of the browser, or will it return to browsing the web?
The Internet experience of different kernel browsers, in addition to the interface operation may be different, in fact, what to see is the same thing.
That is to say, the browser that the self-developed kernel finally makes is essentially indistinguishable from the experience of other browsers.
So, whether from the perspective of cost, technology, open source or experience, huawei at this stage really has no reason to develop its own browser kernel.
Since Huawei has encountered difficulties, Xiao Lei has seen more and more people rubbing heat and traffic in recent years.
As soon as Huawei has any news, good guys, they don't care if the news is true or not, a brain sent first.
When there is something wrong, respond to clarify again, the second wave of traffic is in hand, and the Internet is considered to be their play to understand.
However, goose technology needs to be steady and steady step by step, and it is not possible to achieve it by shouting slogans and blindly "boiling".
Xiao Lei begged these bloggers who like to catch the wind and shadows, touch their consciences, and be individuals!