At the Analyst Summit 2024, current Huawei Chairman Xu Zhijun shared the company’s plans to expand globally after taking care of things at home. Huawei believes it can make HarmonyOS the world’s third option for a mobile operating system, despite US sanctions.
Huawei will work closely with app developers and provide all the necessary support, tools and encouragement to create a robust app ecosystem for HarmonyOS. It will first focus on the Chinese market, where research shows that 99% of users spend their time on just over 5,000 apps. This means that the tech giant needs to focus on these 5,000 apps first and then port them to the rest of the world.
Around 4,000 applications have already been adapted to HarmonyOS NEXT, which is on schedule. But it takes time and effort to involve other app developers. The president believes that Huawei will be able to reach the milestone of one million applications in the near future.
A separate source claims that HarmonyOS is gaining ground very quickly in the domestic market. In fact, Huawei’s operating system will soon become the second most popular mobile system in China, surpassing iOS.
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