Google has cut off its Android relationship with Huawei. This action was made in response to a ban by the US government on the Chinese company and it isn’t coming as much of a surprise to Huawei. Ren Zhengfei spoke to Chinese state media on Tuesday and he said that there would be “conflict with the United States sooner or later” as Huawei continues to grow its dominance in the global telecom industry.
Although it was widely expected that Huawei would simply make a switch over to AOSP, it seems the Chinese giant has something else in mind. A report by Chinese publication Caijing claims that the CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, Richard Yu has made known some details about the indeoenOS by Huawei. It will apparently be available later this Fall or early next year. It will come on phones, computers, tablets, TVs, cars, and wearables.
The OS will come with compatibility with all Android applications. These apps can also be recompiled to improve performance just like ChromeOS. Something similar was done by Samsung with the release of its own OS, Tizen. The case was different as Huawei wants to completely replace Android and this wasn’t the case with Samsung. Also, according to some rumors, Google is helping Huawei to achieve some kind of workaround to the issue.
Huawei has huge popularity which is still growing fast (maybe thanks to the said ban), and it is clear they need to recoup as soon as possible. Fortunately, it appears that the company already has many backup plans in store. We can’t wait to see how Huawei’s HongMeng OS turns out compared to Android and also how it performs in real life. We hope the wait is worth it anyway.
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