Huawei’s consumer business CEO, Richard Yu, claimed in an interview recently that Huawei has invested more than CNY 100 million to improve the HarmonyOS experience. The system can now reach 70% – 80% of Android’s level, but it is improving every day, every week, and every month.
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 understood that Huawei’s smartwatch will be equipped with HarmonyOS this year. In addition, Huawei’s future tablets, PCs, and mobile phones will be equipped with this system. The mobile phone equipped with HarmonyOS will be released next year.
In May last year, the United States initiated the first round of sanctions against Huawei. Huawei could no longer use GMS (Google Mobile Services) in overseas markets. Later, Huawei launched HMS and AppGallery. This year, the United States has escalated sanctions on Huawei. After September 15th, Huawei’s chips will not be able to use US technology in production, and they cannot purchase chips that use US technology.
Richard Yu said that the first round of sanctions did not cause a crisis for Huawei as a whole but that it had a greater impact on the consumer business he was responsible for. Therefore, Huawei began to build and improve its own ecology. As for the second round of sanctions, Richard Yu thought it was very 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.