Huawei launches Mate 70 Series with self-developed HarmonyOS

This is really meant for just the Chinese domestic market, and of very little interest to the RoW. For the Chinese this is a relatively small leap. The Chinese internet has always been it's own separate world, with very little dependence on the US tech giants. Google and Meta have been banned for over a decade, and for almost any significant digital service where the RoW depends on US software/service providers there are large Chinese substitutes.

Although most phone makers still rely on Android, Google Play Store and Play Services are banned in China, so for the domestic market they've always been running AOSP plus domestic middleware. Huawei is now substituting the remaining dependency on AOSP, but the open sourced base layer is really not the valuable part of Android.

This article is a very superficial press release and very poor on details. I was hoping to learn a bit more about HarmonyOS.

I'd love some good technical western coverage of OpenAtom's OpenHarmony or Huaweii's hard fork & rebuild Harmony NEXT.

In particular, they claim a distributed bus DSoftBus underneath, that allows very seamless inter-dice operation. An example use case from one of the few docs online talks about example use cases of videoconferencing using multiple devices... I've done similar with scrcpy on Android & felt like a small demi-gos. But ambient capabilities seem perhaps just part of the OS here, & apps can allegedly easily move between devices & tap a network of resources.

The world is sleeping hard on this. Would be so good to know more to have visibility into these very interesting creations. (Feels very Webinos to me, which was more an iot os & protocols than consumer os, but interesting at pooling distributed resources across networks).

Ref: https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/apiref/doc-guides/harmo...

Truely the promise of the age of the internet has arrived: our choice is between an increasingly closed source android developed under the watchful and loving gaze of the worlds largest advertising firm or a totally closed source HarmonyOS developed under the watchful and loving gaze of the Chinese government.