Quietly, Tencent has done another big thing!
A few days ago, Tencent secretly poked and poked on the programmer exchange platform, released the latest version of the MMKV component, and announced: for the first time, it officially supports HarmonyOS NEXT (HarmonyOS native operating system).
In other words, WeChat is officially adapted to "pure-blooded Hongmeng".
After "playing dead" for a long time on the much-anticipated issue of "whether to join the Hongmeng ecosystem", WeChat finally gave everyone a "touching and earthly" good news.
Yu Chengdong revealed that HarmonyOS NEXT HarmonyOS Galaxy Edition will officially open the beta (public beta version) in June, and the "pure-blooded Hongmeng" will take an important step towards official commercial use.
Source: Huawei's official website
From this point of view, WeChat's HarmonyOS native application version is really not far away. (Dark Horse OS: The two of you are finally going to shake hands and make peace?)
The dark horse couldn't help singing: "Finally waited for you~ Fortunately, I didn't give up~"
You must know that in the process of WeChat and Huawei finally reaching an agreement, there have been too many twists and turns.
Previously, there was frequent news on the Internet: users may face the embarrassing situation of "choosing one of WeChat and Hongmeng".
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When mainstream domestic apps have announced that they will join the Hongmeng ecosystem, WeChat, one of the largest social software in China, has not expressed its position.
On the one hand, the number of monthly active users of WeChat exceeds 1.3 billion, and on the other hand, the number of users of the HarmonyOS system has exceeded 800 million on all scenarios such as mobile phones, tablets, and car machines. If you can only choose one of the two, it will really be a "fatal blow" for users.
At the same time, the two companies are bound to be affected.
For Huawei, if its products can't use WeChat, then many users may abandon Huawei and join other mobile phone brands.
As far as WeChat is concerned, many loyal Huawei users may try to find a "replacement" for WeChat. For example, Huawei's self-developed "Changlian" has exceeded 4.5 billion installs some time ago (note: this data does not represent the number of its real users).
In this case, why hasn't WeChat joined the HarmonyOS ecosystem before?
Before telling everyone about this, Dark Horse will first insert a "little gossip".
In 2021, Huawei suddenly issued an announcement "To Tencent Game Users of Huawei Game Center" and removed Tencent Games from the shelves. (The details are poked on the right: Behind Huawei's Tencent "dry fight", it is actually related to you and me!)
As for the reason, it is said that it is due to a "contract dispute".
Fortunately, the "takedown turmoil" at that time did not last long, and Huawei soon re-launched Tencent games on the app store.
Although the people who eat melons are complaining: "What are you doing? It's like a joke", but this may be a kind of "game" that the two companies have to carry out out consideration of commercial interests.
WeChat has not joined the HarmonyOS ecosystem before, and most of it is related to the commercial interests of both parties.
If WeChat decides to join the HarmonyOS ecosystem, it will inevitably have to make a lot of changes to the app, which will naturally involve some extremely complex interests.
Taking WeChat Mini Program as an example, its huge number of users and high degree of stickiness have brought extremely considerable traffic dividends to WeChat.
However, WeChat Mini Programs and native applications are in competition at a certain level, and HarmonyOS wants to vigorously develop native applications, so WeChat and HarmonyOS must sacrifice some of their interests if they want to cooperate.
Some of the apps that have joined the HarmonyOS ecosystem, the source network
In order to adapt to Hongmeng, WeChat has made changes in other aspects, and the same is true.
As for who will sacrifice a little more? Who will sacrifice a little less? Then the two sides need to "wrestle."
Therefore, WeChat has not stated whether to join the Hongmeng ecosystem before, probably because the two sides have not yet "negotiated" on the distribution of benefits.
In addition, today's WeChat functions are too complete (low EQ statement: bloated), and if you want to develop a version that adapts to Hongmeng, there is a certain degree of difficulty at the technical level from function selection to user privacy permissions.
This may also be one of the reasons why WeChat has not officially announced its participation in the HarmonyOS ecosystem before.
But now that Tencent has finally made a move and released an MMKV component that supports HarmonyOS Next (this is the underlying basic component of WeChat, with which WeChat can function properly), presumably both sides have made some concessions to this.
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The advent of "Hongmeng Native Version" WeChat is just around the corner. From an overall point of view, this is also a "win-win" situation for WeChat and Huawei.
After WeChat joins the pure-blooded HarmonyOS ecosystem, users can use WeChat more smoothly and conveniently on the HarmonyOS system, and WeChat can further stabilize and expand the user base.
With the blessing of WeChat, Huawei will also have an easier time on the road to promoting the development of the HarmonyOS ecosystem.
According to official data, 4000+ apps have joined the HarmonyOS ecosystem.
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As the world's third largest mobile phone operating system, HarmonyOS is completely self-developed by China, and has successfully covered 800 million users, breaking the monopoly of Android and iOS.
This means that we will be able to reduce our dependence on technology from other countries and have more say in the global operating system market in the future.
Moreover, it also gives users more independent choices when using the operating system, so it should be a "win-win-win" situation.
Of course, for those of us users, the biggest benefit is: finally don't have to worry about whether to choose WeChat or Huawei.jpg!
All in all, the vast majority of people in China are looking forward to the "complete adaptation" of WeChat and Hongmeng, and the two sides are now "shaking hands and making peace", which can be regarded as a common expectation.
As for the question of "whether WeChat can get rid of bloat after joining the Hongmeng ecosystem" that many dark horse fans are concerned about, Dark Horse (my WeChat occupies more than 50 G) is also very much looking forward to Hongmeng being able to solve it for everyone.
I hope that the combination of WeChat and Hongmeng can burst out a different "spark".