According to a report by the Observer.com, citing Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, TechInsights, a Canadian market research and consulting agency, released a global smartphone sales forecast report, which predicts that Huawei's self-developed HarmonyOS system will surpass Apple's iOS in 2024 and become the second largest operating system in the Chinese market, second only to Google Android.
According to the report's analysis, Huawei's Mate60 series mobile phones launched in August last year have allowed it to re-enter the field of 5G smartphones. Huawei will address the chip shortage in the coming months and achieve a sizable recovery in 2024, while pushing the HarmonyOS system over Apple's iOS.
This is undoubtedly good news, considering that TechInsights is a well-known market research and consulting agency based in Canada. The agency has disassembled the Huawei Mate60 Pro and found that the design and manufacturing of the Kirin 9000s chip has achieved basic localization. The vice-president of the body even used words such as "amazing" and "unexpected" at the time.
Not only that, as of November last year, the activation of mobile phone operating systems in China has reached 28.71 million units. Considering that the current Huawei mobile phone uses the HarmonyOS system, while the Apple mobile phone uses the iOS system, the rest of the brands use the Android system, including Xiaomi's surging OS, which also belongs to the Android system.
According to these data calculations, Huawei's HarmonyOS market share in China has exceeded 14%, while Apple's iOS market share is about 21%, and Android's market share is about 65%. Although Huawei's share is small, it accounted for only 8% in the first quarter of last year, an increase of three-quarters year-on-year. This year has passed, and it is indeed very possible for Huawei to surpass iOS.
Hongmeng is now looking at the scenery, but Hongmeng's road is not so smooth sailing, Hongmeng has been criticized a lot as soon as it was launched, and even a small number of people diligently hold a magnifying glass to find evidence, trying to prove that Hongmeng is not as good as Android and not as good as Hongmeng, and the most fierce in these attacks is the "shell" Android.
According to them, HarmonyOS 1.0 is a case for Android 9, while HarmonyOS 2.0 is a case for Android 10 or EMUI11. But to be clear, the content of Wikipedia is edited by users themselves, and it is the same as Baidu Encyclopedia, Meng Niang Encyclopedia, etc.
The "original sin" of HarmonyOS's so-called shell Android is the use of AOSP code, which is the main reason why many people attack it. These people think that once they use AOSP code, it means that they lack their own innovation and development, and cannot be regarded as true self-development, and are criticized as a shell.
However, to be clear, the HarmonyOS code is open source and can be used by anyone who complies with the rules. However, it is important to distinguish that Android is an operating system, and while AOSP's code is used on Android, HarmonyOS also uses this code.
Therefore, it cannot be simply said that HarmonyOS is a shell of Android. By analogy, can Ubuntu and Redhat also be called Linux shells?
Fortunately, the mobile phone market ended its 27-month year-on-year decline and achieved a 5% year-on-year increase in shipments for the first time, marking the smartphone industry gradually getting rid of the harsh winter. At the same time, with the launch of new products by giants such as Huawei and Apple in the fourth quarter of 2023, the mobile phone market is showing a trend of recovery.
Huawei occupies an extremely large share in the market, according to the data, Huawei's revenue this year has exceeded 700 billion yuan, and Huawei has changed from the original goal of just "surviving" to returning to normal.
From the perspective of the ecological chain, HarmonyOS is gradually developing from being compatible with Android to an operating system that is on par with Android and iOS. In recent months, many well-known domestic enterprises have announced the start of the development of HarmonyOS native applications, and the HarmonyOS ecological chain will spread to all areas of national life.
And now Huawei is not only deeply engaged in the field of mobile phones, but also in the fields of tablets, cars, watches, etc., which is actually what we call the "Internet of Everything", and the ultimate goal of the Internet of Everything is to establish its own ecology. HarmonyOS has now taken the first step, and without the difficulties of the United States, Huawei will take every step more and more steadily in the future.