Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business, recently stated in an interview that Huawei has invested over 100 million RMB to improve the HarmonyOS experience. The system has currently reached 70%-80% of the level of the Android system and is continuously optimized and upgraded daily, weekly, and monthly.
Richard Yu said, “If it is blocked in the future so that all Chinese companies cannot use the Google ecosystem, our ecosystem can be sold globally and built to replace Google.”
It is reported that Huawei’s smartwatches will be equipped with the HarmonyOS this year. In addition, Huawei’s future tablets, personal computers, and smartphones will also feature this system. Smartphones running HarmonyOS are expected to be released next year.
In May of last year, the United States imposed the first round of sanctions on Huawei, preventing Huawei from continuing to use GMS (Google Mobile Services) in overseas markets. Subsequently, Huawei launched HMS and its app store. This year, U.S. sanctions on Huawei have been further escalated. After September 15, Huawei’s chip production will not be able to use U.S. technology, nor will it be able to purchase chips made with U.S. technology.
Richard Yu stated that the first round of sanctions did not create a crisis for Huawei as a whole, but it had a greater impact on the consumer business he is responsible for. Therefore, Huawei began to build and improve its own ecosystem. As for the second round of sanctions, Yu believes they are extremely unreasonable and disastrous. He said that Huawei has indeed entered a period of crisis. Huawei’s chips cannot be produced, and it can not buy chips from other suppliers.