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Huawei HarmonyOS, Apple iOS and Google Android: Here are the differences from a developer’s point of view
Huawei has already made clear that it will launch its home-grown operating system, HarmonyOS in April among the consumers. With this launch, Huawei will also begin competing with other tech giants like Apple and Google.
However, in the past, there have been a lot of questions regarding the difference between the Huawei HarmonyOS, iOS, and Android. However, people still things that Huawei is faking things and just brought a copy of an operating system for the consumers.
Recently, Tencent Technology interviewed several industry insiders in China to analyze the difference between HarmonyOS, Android, and iOS from the developer’s point of view. Below you can check the complete analysis on this matter.
An app developer believes that HarmonyOS’s entire position is actually as an IoT (Internet of Things) operating system, which solves the interconnection of various devices from the system level.
He also said that HarmonyOS cannot be compared to iOS or Android.
Apple’s iOS has a Unix-based bottom layer and it’s open-source, the bottom layer of Android is based on a Linux system, which is powerful for customizations and upgrades. Hongmeng OS is also based on a Linux system, but it uses different kernels and implementation methods.
Still, when it comes to comparison, they all have a final bottom layer of Linus, and when we talk about the application layer, they all have reimplemented their methods.
He believes that the bottom layer of HarmonyOS is still very different compared to Android. Huawei has done a big amount of research and development in terms of performance but the current version is not so much attractive and interactive.
“Every consumer doesn’t understand the code, so they will think that it’s the same as EMUI,” said the developer. said the developer
There is also some difference that he pointed out between iOS and Android.
Android system is based on the previous rich device architecture, both iOS and HarmonyOS are working on next-gen Internet of Everything operating system architecture simultaneously.
However, iOS is a closed source and HarmonyOS is an open-source and that is the biggest difference between them is that they are three different systems.
In other terms, HarmonyOS’s advantages include its new security system that goes down to the chip level and works together with hardware-level encryption and software-level communication encryption. Therefore, it provides a secure connection using the latest industry standards.
Projects based on HarmonyOS need no bunch of research or you need to learn it from scratch. HarmonyOS entire architectural concept and the entire ecological construction plan allow it to be fully compatible with Android.
In the comparison of Android and HarmonyOS, there are two sets of branches on the same Linux system, which is fully compatible with Android applications. From Android to HarmonyOS, you can translate some of Android’s design concepts and applications, or you can use HarmonyOS’s new IoT-powered features that are useful as well as more powerful compared to these two.
While searching the web, we’ve found this video of EMUI 11 vs HarmonyOS 2.0 mobile developer beta. Here are the results.
HarmonyOS:
Back in 2019, Huawei launched the first version of its HarmonyOS operating system, AKA Hongmeng OS. This latest operating system provides capabilities to establish cross-device connections among different device platforms.
In 2020’s Huawei Developer Conference (HDC), the company opened this OS for more device platforms including tablets, smart wearables, and smartphones, as well as third-party IoT devices.
Currently, Huawei is preparing to conclude the HarmonyOS mobile developer beta and moving towards the launch of the HarmonyOS for mobile devices for general consumers.
Huawei has finalized the design of the P60 series and the flagship could appear at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 at the earliest, which is piece of amazing news.
Input coming from different Weibo tipsters suggests that Huawei has confirmed the design of the Huawei P60 series. It is the first camera module that has a giant ring in the middle followed by a camera on the top and a periscope camera placed on the bottom side.
These tipsters have seen the test model, and the company is likely to keep the below-featured camera system, unlike the one that surfaced recently. The camera bump is rectangular and houses all of the sensors inside, making it a hybrid version of P50 and P40 devices.
MWC 2023:
Another tipster suggested that the Huawei P60 series revealing could occur at MWC 2023, which will be a surprise. However, the tipster insists that it could be the earliest launch attempt that the Chinese tech maker may choose to go with.
MWC Barcelona is an annual event and 2023’s conference will start from February 27, 2023, to March 2, 2023. So, the company could book the last week of this month to open the launch or by early in March.
At MWC 23, Honor will also participate in the launch of its new foldable device. This leads us to a prediction that, Huawei Mate X3 is also ready to enter among consumers and it would make sense, as this new foldable device is ready to raise the curtain.
Past information:
Huawei P60 series could be the most powerful camera smartphone, as it will feature a large sensor to boast better light. Also, it will debut variable aperture in the P series, which is another advantage for this flagship family.
For now, Huawei has not made an official announcement about the launch date. However, there is more information that will appear to amaze us.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
