Huawei reshaping mobile OS landscape

HarmonyOS Next may 'help China to reduce reliance on certain chips'

China's first homegrown and fully autonomous mobile operating system was launched by tech firm Huawei Technologies Co on Tuesday night, breaking the global OS landscape dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS systems.

The breakthrough is very likely to "extend beyond smartphones to devices like computers", which once again showed that the United States' suppression of China's tech sector will only fuel domestic drive for independent innovation, industry experts said.

Huawei's latest mobile operating system, HarmonyOS Next, is also dubbed a "pure-blood" version of Harmony, as it does away with roots to the Android system and will no longer support Android-based applications.