Huawei's Hongmeng system is not unfamiliar to everyone, but recently there is a news that there are mobile phones equipped with The Hongmeng system to be sold overseas, and no Hongmeng system mobile phones have been sold overseas before this.
Although the rumors spread like this, at a conference not long after, Zhonghua responded to the matter for the rotating CEO Liu Ping, "At present, there are no plans to launch a mobile phone equipped with HarmonyOS overseas." ”
Through this denial, we can clearly see that there will indeed be no HarmonyOS mobile phones sold overseas, but this does not mean that the Hongmeng system will not appear in the overseas mobile phone market.
Because the Hongmeng system is divided into OpenHarmony and HarmonyOS, there is actually a difference between the two externally.
Official information shows that there are actually two versions of the Hongmeng system. One is the commercial version of HarmonyOS that Huawei uses itself, and the other is the open source OpenHarmony. In Huawei's own words, "it will not provide a commercial version, but it does not restrict the use of open source versions."
OpenHarmony is the equivalent of Android's AOSP, which can be provided to mobile phone manufacturers to develop their own UIs on this basis, such as Xiaomi's MIUI based on AOSP.
This means that overseas companies can develop their own UI systems based on OpenHarmony, so it is still possible to see the Hongmeng system overseas in the future, as long as it is based on openHarmony, it can also be said to be a derivative version of the Hongmeng system.
For Huawei has been affirming that it will not release mobile phones equipped with HarmonyOS system in overseas markets for the time being, some insiders have analyzed that the reason why Huawei has done this is inseparable from the upstream supply cut and the overseas market environment.
Previously, Huawei has been subject to multiple rounds of sanctions, resulting in Huawei's high-end mobile phone series products being "corelessly available", and its market share has declined all the way, and even the output cannot be guaranteed.
In addition to the sanctions on the chip, Huawei has also suffered from Google's supply cuts, resulting in newly released mobile phone products can not be pre-installed to use Google GMS services.
And models released after May 2019 can not directly get Google's official Android system updates, including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Play Store and other applications and services.
This is a fatal blow to the experience of overseas mobile phone users.
Looking forward to the day when Huawei HarmonyOS will go overseas.