James Lu, Product Manager of Huawei recently shared the roadmap of Harmony OS at an event in Jakarta. The Huawei product manager also explained the company’s latest operating system.
According to the roadmap, the Harmony OS will make its mark to the smartwatches and bands, head units, and most importantly, what they call “Innovative PCs” by the end of 2020. It’ll also be able to power other devices such as smart speakers, VR glasses two years down the line.
One of the largest technology companies dropping Android and Linux and going for an entirely homegrown multi-device open source operating system that other countries and regions can adopt and adapt to their needs is probably not the outcome the US government should be aiming for.
I don’t think sharpies will be enough here.
“I have neither the time, nor the crayons, to explain why this is a bad idea.”
You are only economically strong if others rely on you. Donald Trump is weakening the USA by making global businesses think twice before partnering on long-term projects with US based businesses. He has a history of consistently bankrupting organizations he helms. More of the same here.
And as with those Bankrupt organizations, he will leave with the dough and he’ll blame it all on….
Riiight, you obviously have zero clue how business in China works. You see thanks to the US government being bought by the megacorps for several decades here is how “business” with China “works”…they can sell anything they want in the USA, the US can’t sell squat there without it either being made in China or having a Chinese company “partnered” with them that gets a big cut.
In other words to steal a line from Goodfellas its the “fuck you pay me” strategy and its been working great for the Chinese leaders and the megacorps, while giving cancer cities to the Chinese workers and closing American factories. This is what happens when you allow the corps to write your laws for decades which is why Thomas Jefferson wrote oh so many years ago “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”
Nice try but not quite. First of all, massive numbers of jobs have been lost to automation and that will only continue. It has caused more output with less factories needed, which in turn has simplified supply chains. Next, for industries still relying on manual labor, America simply can’t compete with developing countries and/or countries with relaxed laws. This is not because of China. In fact China itself has grown to the point where they’re now losing manufacturing jobs to other less expensive countries such as Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Honduras, Guatemala, and so on.
And there’s another component you’re not considering when you and our ill-informed President suggest China has been taking us to the cleaners. It’s that Americans have enjoyed the perks of lower cost Chinese (and others) goods. They’ve been spoiled by it, which has driven spending, which has driven the economy, which has been a benefit to the entire country.
friedchicken,
Yes, but I think you are losing your time trying to explain the logic of economics here, not that there are no others here that understand it on this place, but because, and it is just a suspect of mine, most OSnews readers are, probably, on that age and time when they already set their mind about this.
Also, lets not even talk about the fact the US dollars is the de facto currency of international business, which brings so much benefits to USA that its leaders should be actually very careful about not imperils it and not brandish war against all its partners. Granted, it brought many advantages for the world too, but that only as long as USA was governed by responsible and literate leaders, what does not happen all the time.
I don’t think this is going to gain much traction outside of China and close allies. Unless other nation states can certify that it’s free of Chinese backdoors so they can put their own backdoors in–oops, did I say that?–it will stay in the Chinese market for a while.
“darknexus
I don’t think this is going to gain much traction outside of China and close allies. Unless other nation states can certify that it’s free of Chinese backdoors so they can put their own backdoors in–oops, did I say that?–it will stay in the Chinese market for a while.”
You couldn’t be more wrong. First of all people like me *DON’T* and wouldn’t buy the hardware and other products tech snobs like yourself recommend.
We just wouldn’t.
Second Ever hear of Ebay? That gives people like me pretty much direct acess to the Chinese/Asian market. I pretty much know how,where and whom to buy stuff from, so I really don’t care if the phones,tablets and other stuff I buy don’t ever show up in places like Best Buy in the US because I wouldn’t buy anything from there to begin with.
So in other words: it won’t come on smartphones anytime soon?