The Chinese technology giant’s Mate 70 smartphone will run on Huawei’s homegrown HarmonyOS Next operating system, which removes open-source code from Google’s Android that Huawei used in previous HarmonyOS iterations. Although going Android-free is forcing appmakers to rewrite their programs for the new phones, it completes Huawei’s move to a smartphone ecosystem completely independent of American control. (Financial Times)
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The Chinese technology giant’s Mate 70 smartphone will run on Huawei’s homegrown HarmonyOS Next operating system, which removes open-source code from Google’s Android that Huawei used in previous HarmonyOS iterations. Although going Android-free is forcing appmakers to rewrite their programs for the new phones, it completes Huawei’s move to a smartphone ecosystem completely independent of American control. (Financial Times)
Talking point: Huawei phones ran on Android until the United States barred American companies from selling or transferring their technology to the company in 2019, including Google’s proprietary software. Building HarmonyOS on Android’s open-source elements was a step toward freedom from U.S. restrictions. The Mate 70’s predecessor, the Mate 60, used all non-U.S. hardware for the first time, including chips that Western experts thought at the time were beyond China’s capabilities, but still had Android-based code.
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