In the past few decades, the mainland information industry has a short board of "lack of core and little soul", and it is very dependent on imports, the core here refers to the chip, and the "soul" refers to the software operating system.
In the global mobile operating system market, Apple's closed-source system IOS share is about 23%, Google's open source Android is 76%, and the market share of these two major US companies has reached 99%.
Two years ago, when shipments of the mainland smartphone market exceeded the 500 million unit mark, many people were proud of the rising domestic mobile phone industry. However, professionals have pointed out to the point that if the United States implements a supply cut in the system, these 500 million domestic mobile phones may become "bricks" in an instant.
Huawei's next encounter also proves this conjecture, due to the termination of the GMS service by Google Android, Huawei's high-end mobile phone overseas business is almost cut off, a large number of customers are lost, the loss of more than 200 billion, years of efforts are almost ruined.
But what makes people feel excited is that in the face of Western bullying behavior, Huawei did not bend the knee, but rose to the challenge and officially launched the first domestic operating system Hongmeng OS on June 2, 2021.
Compared with the Android system, Hongmeng OS adopts a distributed microkernel design, which is oriented to the Interconnection of Everything, which is more in line with the development of the times, and also has obvious advantages such as "small memory, fast operation and strong scalability". In this regard, the central media gave a high evaluation, saying that Hongmeng is expected to break the monopoly of overseas operating systems.
However, as Wang Chenglu, the "father of Hongmeng", said: it is not difficult to create an operating system, it is rare to build an ecological construction in the later stage.
You know, as strong as Microsoft and Samsung, they have also tried in the field of mobile operating systems, but in the end they have all folded on the issue of ecological construction in the later stage.
For the open source Hongmeng OS, external support is particularly critical. But what I didn't expect was that there were suddenly many voices questioning Hongmeng in China, such as "Shell Android", "PPT System" and so on.
The reason for their questioning is that the underlying architecture of Hongmeng uses part of the Android code, and the public relations executive of a mobile phone manufacturer even made it clear in the social group: Hongmeng is changing the skin of Android, absolutely will not use, and will not hand over the fate to Huawei.
Although Huawei and official media such as People's Daily have explained this in detail: these codes are from the open source community, not exclusive to Google, and these codes can be compatible with Android, making it easier for Hongmeng users to use.
However, domestic mobile phone manufacturers are still unwilling to adapt to Hongmeng, and even glory, which has been with Huawei for seven years, has also chosen the latter between Hongmeng and Google Android. Without the support of the huge domestic mobile phone market, many users are worried about the future of Hongmeng.
Fortunately, Hongmeng itself has the advantage of interconnection of all things, including smart home appliances, new energy vehicles and other terminal equipment can be accessed, although Hongmeng is only Huawei alone in the field of smart phones, but Midea, Gree, Cilis and other brands have unswervingly joined the Hongmeng ecosystem.
Thanks to this, in just over a year, Hongmeng's user volume has continuously broken through new highs. According to the latest data, Hongmeng's device access volume has exceeded 240 million units, basically crossing the "life and death line" of the system, and the signs of becoming the world's third largest mobile operating system are becoming more and more obvious.
More importantly, in order to make hongmeng a domestic system more pure, Huawei issued an announcement on the upgrade of hongmeng system, and in the Hongmeng 3.0 version, it will completely delete all code contributed by Google from the open source community.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a hot discussion in the industry, which means that Hongmeng has drawn a clear line with Google Android, and those who question Hongmeng are arbitrage Android voices should shut up. In the eyes of many people, the Chinese operating system Hongmeng OS has since entered a new era, and the head-on competition with Android has also begun.
In the face of the rising Hongmeng, Google seems to feel the pressure and begins to sit still. On July 16, Google suddenly announced that it would remove a lot of code about Fuchsia from its Android open source project.
Fuchsia is a system that went live in 2016. The reason why Google created Fuchsia under the premise of having an Android system is mainly because in recent years, with the continuous popularization of various types of intelligent electronic devices, Google has seen the market prospect of the Internet of Everything, but Android, which only supports smartphones, cannot adapt to the needs of the era of Internet of Everything.
Unwilling to give up the advantages accumulated by Android over the years, and not wanting to lose the opportunity of the Era of the Internet of Everything, Google has designed a new kernel that is different from Android, that is, Fuchsia, in a vain attempt to create new glory with the help of Android's ecology.
But it is precisely because of the loss and loss that Google has not dared to do it in the application coordination conversion between Android users and Fuchsia, so that in recent years, there have been few device access to the Fuchsia system. Although Google designed a project called Android Runtime in 2019 to promote the Fuchsia ecosystem, the effect was minimal.
Now, with Google's decision to remove the Fuchsia code in Android open source, it basically indicates that the project may stop here.
But Google still seems to be unwilling, because after announcing this decision, Google immediately launched a new project called Starnix, the main purpose is to allow Fuchsia to seamlessly run Android applications, so as to maximize the advantages of the Android ecosystem to the Fuchsia system.
From these moves of Google, it can be clearly seen that it is unwilling to admit that Hongmeng is leading in the era of Internet of Everything, and it does not want to see Hongmeng enjoy this huge cake of the Internet of Everything market alone.
In this regard, foreign media issued a rather realistic comment: it is too late, Huawei Hongmeng has a huge leading edge in the field of Internet of Everything at this stage, and Google is too slow to catch up.
As the "overlord" in the field of mobile operating systems, the brilliance created by Google Android is obvious to all, even the Fuchsia system, in the early stage, it also had natural advantages in all aspects. However, because of Google's gains and losses, the Fuchsia system missed the best period of development.
Now that Hongmeng has risen, Google's lost head start can never be recovered. Huawei was originally a big customer of Google, but Google implemented a supply cut off on Huawei, and now it has led to its former customers becoming competitors that threaten their own industry status, which can only be said to be self-inflicted.
Huawei is worthy of being the backbone of national enterprises, in 5G communications, chip design, cloud computing and many other key areas, almost single-handedly against Apple, Qualcomm and other American technology giants, and now in the field of operating systems to break the Western monopoly, pay too much, it is not easy.
Therefore, I hope that domestic mobile phone friends can respond to the call of Academician Ni Guangnan, put aside their prejudices, give support to the Hongmeng system, and work together to create a "moat" of the domestic system and completely get rid of the situation of being subject to people.