Report: Huawei's Hongmeng will reach 2% of global market share in 2020 and become the fifth largest operating system

Counterpoint pointed out that it is expected that Hongmeng's market share in China will reach 0.1% by the end of 2019 and 5% by the end of next year. As for future performance, analysts believe that if there is a stronger force behind it, Hongmeng OS may open up new breakthroughs in smart TVs and attract domestic peers to adopt it.

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On October 14, the latest report from market research firm Counterpoint stated that Huawei's self-developed operating system Hongmeng will achieve a 2% market share (globally) in 2020, which means that its position will surpass the current Linux and become the world's fifth largest operating system.

Current operating system share data for all platforms

The statistics given in the report also show that the current global market share ranking of operating systems is: Android is 39%, Windows is 35%, iOS is 13.87%, macOS is 5.92%, and Linux is 0.77%. This shows that if Hongmeng can obtain a 2% market share, it will be a huge achievement.

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In addition, Counterpoint also pointed out that Hongmeng's share of the Chinese market is expected to reach 0.1% by the end of 2019 and 5% by the end of next year, while Hongmeng OS devices account for 0.03% of all Huawei's shipped devices this year. As for future performance, analysts believe that if there is a stronger force behind it, Hongmeng OS may open up new breakthroughs in smart TVs and attract domestic peers to adopt it.

On August 9 this year, Huawei officially released the Hongmeng system, which is Huawei's product to welcome the arrival of the full-scenario experience era. It has four characteristics: 1. The distributed architecture is used for terminal OS for the first time to achieve seamless collaborative experience across terminals; 2. It has a delay engine and high-performance IPC technology to ensure system smoothness; 3. It reshapes the trustworthiness and security of terminal devices based on the microkernel architecture; 4. It supports one-time development and multi-terminal deployment through a unified IDE to achieve cross-terminal ecological sharing.

It is reported that Huawei has invested 4,000-5,000 people in the research and development of this system. In order to attract more developers, Huawei will also spend $1 billion to support developers around the world, of which $800 million will be used in overseas markets. One part is in the form of development funds, and the other part is promotion funds (all or 70%, 50%, etc. of the income from the application of Hongmeng system will be returned to the developers), and this system is also open source.

Huawei has already prepared specific steps for the development of Hongmeng. Hongmeng 1.0 is used in Huawei and Honor smart screen products. In 2020, Hongmeng 2.0 will be launched, and the products to be launched include innovative domestic PCs, watches/bracelets, and car machines. In 2021, Hongmeng OS 3.0 will be launched, mainly for speakers and headphones, and in 2022, it will be used for VR glasses and more devices.

As for the use of Hongmeng system on mobile phones, this is something that can be expected. According to Yu Chengdong, if the Android system cannot be used, it is very convenient for Huawei to migrate the Android system to Hongmeng OS, which can be achieved in 1-2 days. However, considering the ecosystem and partners, our mobile phones will give priority to the Android system. However, the Hongmeng system has been tested on Huawei mobile phones and has reached the commercial level, so the first mobile phone product equipped with the Hongmeng system may be the Huawei P40 released in March next year.

In addition to developing Hongmeng OS, Huawei is also using subsidies to attract developers to switch to HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) ecosystem services. Regardless of whether they can obtain Google GMS authorization certification, if they want Hongmeng to make a difference in mobile terminals, then building their own mobile core suite is inevitable. Yu Chengdong once publicly called on developers to join in building HMS ecosystem services. Currently, 45,000 applications have been integrated with Huawei Mobile Services.

To encourage developers to publish their apps using the HMS platform, Huawei has increased its investment to $1 billion under a developer program called "Shining Star". The program is also designed to cover the required development, growth, and marketing promotion funds. With this set of applications, services, and developer support, the first model to promote and benefit is their Mate 30 series, and Huawei also expects that the life cycle shipments of this series can exceed 20 million units.