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Huawei on Thursday notched a milestone in its effort to cut its reliance on Google’s Android operating system, releasing the first smartphone in its flagship Pura series that runs solely on its HarmonyOS Next operating system as well as an AI assistant it says can interact with humanlike “emotions.”
Not only is this the first Pura series phone to run fully on Harmony, including the core infrastructure, but it is also the first time for Huawei’s flagship line to come embedded with Harmony Intelligence, the company’s answer to Apple Intelligence.
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Huawei is on course to fully replace Android OS on its mobile devices and Windows OS on personal computers with HarmonyOS Next, which is also adopted by Chinese automobile makers such as Chery Automobile and Seres Automobile for their electric vehicles.
Yu said the first HarmonyOS-powered notebook will be launched in May this year.
The company also aims to enlarge its developers’ ecosystem to bring in more applications that can run on its Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), a replacement for Google Mobile Services (GMS) and its popular Gmail and Google Map apps. Huawei announced that some big names have already joined Huawei AppGallery, including ride-hailing and food delivery service Grab and airline Emirates.
The much more important news in the article is that they have another other phone fully running on their Harmony Next OS (that has no connection to Android).
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next ~10 years China will largely replace Windows/Android/iOS with homegrown alternatives.
While I am no fan of the CCP, this is a smart move. The United States is unreliable, petty and extremely corrupt; not the qualities you want in the home country of your main technology platform providers.
Trump is just so fucking dumb. He is literally destroying the market for US products. In the past regardless of politics companies were independent of it, and foreign customers can rely on the companies to provide service with respect to rule of law, privacy, etc. The past US presidents refrained from fucking that up unless it involves transferring sensitive tech to unfavored nations. Now all the moves Trump does are endangering that.
The flipside is, once these Chinese products with Chinese OS invade the globe, every individual’s privacy is at risk, because we all know where China stands there.
Not a fan of Chinese tech products either. That being said, US products weren’t that great on privacy even before Trump. And all American firms are involved in corruption to one extent or another.
My hope is recent developments in the US can give some breathing space for platforms/companies that are not Chinese or American.
US products are less risky in the short time, but by using them one is simply kicking the can down the road.
There is a very high possibility that the US will permanently become a de facto proto-fascist oligarch-run plutocracy. And it’s not even a Trump thing, the oligarchy was there before him.
No disrespect to sane Americans, I do wish you all the best and I hope I am wrong. However, I hope you understand that the topic at hand requires a sober, cautious evaluation of the situation.
So they’re adding phone capabilities to Tamagotchi?
(joke) Would you rather buy a SmartPhone or an EmotionalPhone ?
user - “phone - - call xyz”
phone - “i’d rather not - - xyz is annoying”An Insult To Life Itself
