15,000 applications and 1 billion ecological devices, pure Hongmeng completely rewrites the mobile phone operating system market landscape

On October 22, at the Huawei HarmonyOS Night and All-Scenario New Product Launch Conference, HarmonyOS NEXT was officially released. So far, Android and iOS have welcomed the third powerful competitor, and domestic mobile operating systems have also reached an important turning point.

Since its release, the popularity of HarmonyOS NEXT has continued to rise. At present, more than 15,000 applications and meta-services have completed the development of HarmonyOS, and the number of devices in the HarmonyOS ecosystem has exceeded 1 billion. Many well-known applications such as Alipay, DingTalk, Taobao, JD.com, WPS, Meituan, AutoNavi, Weibo, major banks and government and enterprise applications have launched native HarmonyOS applications, and the iteration speed is amazing, some even have a new version per day.

Take Alipay as an example. Since the development of Hongmeng native applications was launched with Huawei in December 2023, hundreds of technical experts have devoted their full efforts. After the Beta version was launched in June 2024, more than a dozen versions were quickly iterated. On October 8, the Hongmeng native version was officially launched, realizing the "touch" payment experience, and the fluency was improved by more than 30%. Millions of Alipay mini-programs and more than 100 life services were also launched.

ByteDance's native version of Feishu in Hongmeng took only 3 to 4 months to complete the development of chat, document, video conferencing and other functions, and the video conferencing function took only two and a half weeks. This ease of development makes the version and function iteration speed of native Hongmeng applications extremely fast.

From the perspective of global industry development, iOS and Android have been installed on mobile phones for 16 or 17 years, and there have been almost no major innovations in recent years. New forces are urgently needed to stimulate market vitality. Huawei's native Hongmeng operating system is just in time. It is like a new force in the electric vehicle market, and is expected to bring new innovative vitality to the industry.

Huawei has entered the wireless, terminal, electric vehicle and other industries and has brought high-level products. The native Hongmeng operating system will also bring many new technologies, which will not only be conducive to industry progress, but also enhance consumer experience.

In fact, HarmonyOS NEXT has many exciting innovative capabilities.

In terms of privacy protection, an innovative user data access mechanism has been introduced to limit the storage of sensitive personal data only on the terminal side, accurately grant permissions, and protect user privacy from being eroded by applications; in terms of AI function application, Xiaoyi has been upgraded from a voice assistant to an intelligent agent, with powerful understanding and learning capabilities, such as circle selection and identification of objects, table extraction, document summary and other functions, which greatly saves work time; in terms of meta-service functions, similar to mini-programs, there is no need to download and install, you can use it and go, which reduces the trouble of consumers installing applications and also lowers the threshold for developers to develop.

For developers, HarmonyOS NEXT is a new opportunity to create wealth. Since it cannot run Android apps and the number of apps available in the initial stage is relatively small, developers' apps have a greater chance of standing out.

At the same time, Hongmeng has already surpassed iOS in China and become the second largest mobile operating system after Android. The number of ecological devices has exceeded 1 billion, bringing huge market space for developers. Huawei also provides cash incentives to developers to launch native Hongmeng applications, and a single developer can receive a maximum reward of 1 million RMB.

With the success of HarmonyOS NEXT, China will have the first batch of talents with complete operating system technology and market success experience. Their capabilities will spill over to the entire industry and are expected to give birth to more successful operating systems. In the future, my country's operating system will also go overseas and compete head-on with Android, iOS and other operating systems in the global market.

It is believed that the emergence of HarmonyOS NEXT has great strategic significance. It is not only a major breakthrough for Huawei in the field of science and technology, but also a key step for China to achieve independent control in the field of operating systems. Against the background of increasingly fierce global technological competition, having an independently developed operating system is crucial to the country's information security and industrial development.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.