On October 22, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, said confidently at the 2021 developer conference, "At present, 150 million users have upgraded HarmonyOS and made it the fastest growing intelligent terminal operating system, according to this progress, it will reach 200 million at the end of this year." ”
In fact, as early as the release of Hongmeng, Huawei had given an estimate that by the end of 2021, the number of devices equipped with Hongmeng operating system would reach 300 million, of which more than 200 million were Huawei equipment and more than 100 million were terminal equipment for third-party partners. And this is also an operating system, to survive the most basic bottom line - 16% market share.
At present, it is not difficult for Huawei to achieve this goal. In addition, Huawei also launched the HarmonyOS 3 developer preview version, and mainly in the elastic deployment, Hyperterminal and other aspects of the upgrade, as for the HarmonyOS 3 Beta, is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2022.
More importantly, Gong Ti, president of Huawei's consumer business software department, also announced at the conference that it will be released as a newly developed programming language for HarmonyOS. You know, programming languages such as Java and Python that are well known in China are developed from abroad, and if Huawei can gain a foothold in this regard, it will undoubtedly get a milestone progress.
The incident also appeared on the hot search and triggered a heated discussion, "to learn a new language again" and "good, can bring new opportunities". Interestingly, some people joked about it, "It is recommended to use Chinese, such as Wen yanwen", and the netizen then explained, "The common language in the world is English, and Chinese will be very troublesome to interpret." This language is ultimately going to go all over the world, so factors such as difficulty must be taken into account."
In simple terms, a programming language is a language that can be recognized by computers and people, allowing programmers to accurately define the data required by computers, and the actions that should be taken in different situations, mainly including assembly language, machine language and high-level language, which have now developed into the object-oriented era, and java and Python mentioned above are products of this era.
Huawei has previously announced that it will launch its self-developed programming language - Cangjie in the near future, and open up Hongmeng and Euler in the application development ecology, which is likely to be mentioned this time, Huawei will make up the last link for the newly developed programming language of HarmonyOS for the hongmeng ecological infrastructure. In 2020, Huawei applied for the registration of the "Cangjie Language" trademark, which involves "scientific instruments" and "website services".
Cangjie is a legendary figure in Chinese history, known as the creator of the original hieroglyphs of the Chinese nation, there is a saying that Cangjie made characters, so it is revered as the "sage of character creation", and Huawei chose this name, which is a beautiful meaning.
In fact, Huawei's current situation is still very difficult, and even Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman, has publicly shouted bitterly, "Survive, survive with quality." "In the first half of 2021, Huawei achieved sales revenue of 320.4 billion yuan, down 29% year-on-year, a decrease of more than 130 billion yuan, and net profit was also only 31.4 billion yuan, down 24% year-on-year."
Specifically, in the first half of this year, Huawei's three major businesses achieved revenue of 136.9 billion yuan, enterprise business revenue of 42.9 billion yuan, and consumer business revenue of 135.7 billion yuan. In the same period last year, Huawei's consumer business revenue was as high as 255.8 billion yuan, down 47% year-on-year, almost "waist cut".
Xu Zhijun once said, "We have clearly defined the strategic goal for the next five years," and Ren Zhengfei has long mentioned that "when the clarion call of the strategic offensive is sounded in five years, our charge will not be chaotic." This means that Huawei can really get rid of its current predicament, and perhaps it will take another five years to witness.
(Author 丨Shijie Feng Chenchen Editor 丨Liao Ying)