For months, rumors have circulated that Chinese tech giant Huawei was hard at work on a homegrown operating system, an increasingly necessary step toward independence after US sanctions prompted Google to sever ties.
It’s true that HarmonyOS has been built with that breadth of applications in mind.
The open-source platform is destined for smart TVs, smartwatches, and a bevy of Internet of Things doodads.
(The kernel is the core of an operating system, the hands that make the marionette dance.
Huawei touts HarmonyOS as having a “Deterministic Latency Engine,” a fancy way of saying that it can better prioritize resources when apps and functions compete over them.
While smartphones weren’t the primary focus of Huawei’s announcement, they’re clearly top of mind.