According to Huawei’s Hongmeng time schedule, on June 2, 2021, Huawei will hold a launch conference for Hongmeng operating system and Huawei’s full-scenario new products. According to Huawei's previous introduction, compared with Hongmeng OS 1.0, Hongmeng OS 2.0 can log in to more smart terminal devices and will have new changes in functions and architecture.
The 2020 annual report shows that Huawei’s number of terminal connections worldwide has exceeded 1 billion, of which the number of existing mobile phone users has exceeded 730 million. About 90% of Huawei’s existing and on-sale mobile phones can be upgraded to the Hongmeng system. #红梦#
HarmonyOS is a future-oriented, full-scenario distributed smart operating system.
For consumers, HarmonyOS uses a unified software system to fundamentally solve the problem of fragmented experience faced by consumers on a large number of smart terminals, bringing consumers a unified, convenient and safe intelligent full-service experience. scene experience.
HarmonyOS technical architecture supports the 1 8 N strategy.
In this strategy, 1 is mobile phones, 8 includes tablets, PCs, wearables, smart screens, AI speakers, headsets, VR, and cars, and N refers to the Internet of Everything. Through communication connections and applications, the HarmonyOS technical architecture plays a huge supporting role by extending the advantages of mobile phones to the periphery.
At the Huawei Ecology Conference 2021 held on May 21, Huawei Rotating Chairman Xu Zhijun emphasized: Huawei plans to fully upgrade domestic 1.8 devices to Harmony OS in 2021, and it is expected that the entire system will be fully operational by the end of 2021. More than 200 million units.
The important commercial value of Hongmeng operating system is that it provides more "connections", thereby enhancing the added value and connotation of Huawei's hardware ecosystem, and will realize the interconnection of Huawei's series of hardware products and even the development of smart cities. Everything is connected to the Internet and drives the continued prosperity of Huawei's software and hardware ecosystem.
IoT is Huawei’s important layout in the era of industrial Internet of Things, and Huawei mainly focuses on the infrastructure field. The connection of massive low-cost terminal devices needs to ensure that the connection is manageable and controllable, with continuous coverage of the entire network, as well as end-side (terminal), transmission, and cloud security.
Huawei already has Ascend, Kunpeng, Kirin and other chips on the cloud and device sides, which have powerful computing power and the efficient and flexible execution capabilities of Hongmeng operating system, which will cultivate a large number of high-value applications.
Hongmeng operating system and Huawei's "cloud" chip form a powerful synergy to form a killer application.
From both a technical and ecological perspective, the operating system is of great significance to ICT manufacturers. The launch of the Hongmeng operating system is of self-evident significance to Huawei and my country’s independent and controllable process.
With the help of Hongmeng operating system, Huawei will demonstrate its competitive advantages in three aspects: ecosystem, hardware, first-mover and continuous innovation, and become a leader in the 5G IoT industry.
1. Based on the characteristics of microkernel, distributed and cross-terminal, HarmonyOS can better adapt to the needs of the Internet of Things era.
HarmonyOS is a microkernel-based distributed operating system for all scenarios (mobile office, sports and health, social communication, media and entertainment, etc.).
The most important feature of Hongmeng operating system is "distribution", that is, the same operating system can run on different types of terminals.
Ensure the "correct person" through "distributed multi-terminal collaborative identity authentication", ensure the "correct device" through "building a trusted operating environment on distributed terminals", and ensure the "correct device" through "distributed data In the process of cross-terminal flow, data is classified and hierarchically managed to ensure "correct use of data."
In the field of IoT hardware, HarmonyOS's revolutionary distributed technology can also help hardware manufacturers achieve "product as a service" industrial upgrades. For application developers, Hongmeng is more convenient and faster.
At present, Huawei's single-system security capabilities have reached the ultimate level, becoming the first and only manufacturer in the industry to pass CCEAL5 certification in the microkernel field.
2. Open source attracts more ecological partners to join
Huawei began to develop Hongmeng OS in 2012. Hongmeng OS aims to build an ecosystem and serve Huawei's hardware products.
On August 9, 2019, Huawei officially released HarmonyOS, and Yu Chengdong announced that HarmonyOS would be open source.
HarmonyOS adopts the Apache license open source agreement, which not only encourages code sharing, but also respects the copyright of the original author, making it easier to attract business entry.
Developers around the world can use the Hongmeng open source toolkit to develop various applications. At the same time, Huawei has also allocated US$1 billion as a fund to help developers around the world develop innovative applications.
Previously, Samsung, Microsoft, and Nokia all failed in their attempts to close source operating systems. However, Google, which chose the open source route, has successfully resisted Apple's iOS system with its Android system, becoming the open source with the most mobile users. system.
3. Huawei’s technology accumulation and massive ecosystem are the guarantee for the development of HarmonyOS.
Hongmeng is similar to Apple from the perspective of bundling and synergy with hardware; from the perspective of free and open source, it is similar to Android.
Judging from the split of financial reports, although Apple does not directly sell operating systems, it generates more than 15 billion US dollars in value-added revenue through the operating system; Google's operating system-related value-added business revenue and licensing revenue exceeds Billions of dollars.
The difference between HarmonyOS 2.0 and IOS and Android:
Whether it is Google’s Android or Apple’s IOS, revenue is mainly achieved through two models: advertising and APP sales commission. At this stage, Hongmeng system can reach the level of Android 70 and 80, and the HMS ecosystem has become the third largest application ecosystem in the world. As the subsequent HMS ecosystem gradually matures, and with the huge number of HarmonyOS terminals, the HMS ecosystem is expected to become Huawei's new revenue engine.
Hongmeng operating system is expected to accelerate the integration and overall implementation of domestic solutions in the Internet of Things era. The independent and controllable kinetic energy of domestic software and hardware will be accelerated. Partners in Huawei’s independent and controllable camp are expected to rapidly develop in the Hongmeng ecosystem. Continue to benefit from the expansion path.
The HarmonyOS ecosystem has developed more than 1,000 smart hardware partners such as Midea, Joyoung, Boss, Runhe Software and Thunderstar, and more than 50 module and chip solution partners, including home furnishing , partners in many fields such as travel, education, office, sports and health, government and enterprises, audio and video entertainment.
Huawei is currently communicating and cooperating with the world's top 200 APP manufacturers, aiming to bring them a new cross-terminal device experience.
More than 120 well-known application manufacturers such as JD.com, Baidu, Youku, iFlytek, and Kingsoft Office have begun to innovate based on HarmonyOS, allowing consumers to obtain a disruptive smart life experience.
Companies related to Huawei’s ecology and overall self-control themes include Kingsoft Office, UFIDA, Kingdee International, etc. Dongfangtong (middleware), Zhongke Chuangda (system development), Runhe Software (multi-chip platform adaptation), Changshan Beiming (ISV), ArcherMind Technology (software development), Beixinyuan (mobile security), Gao Weida (Financial Cloud), etc.
Huawei Smart Life APP has more than 54 million active users, the Smart Life APP has more than 1.08 billion daily requests, and more than 1 billion connected devices. With the further unification of HiLink and HarmonyOS, this may be expected to further increase the number of Harmony access devices.
In the future, Hongmeng OS will be responsible for the interconnection of a series of Huawei hardware products including TVs, speakers, routers, smart cars, etc., and even the interconnection of everything in smart cities, forming a larger Huawei software and hardware ecosystem.