Dubai – Masaader News
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has warned the US government that if his company is denied access to the “full-fat” Android operating system for its future smartphones, it will set out to break the dominance enjoyed by Google (and Apple) over the world’s smartphone ecosystem, which, he claims, will be bad news for the US, according to Forbes.
Huawei has been threatening/promising to launch a new smartphone operating system ever since the on-again/off-again U.S. blacklisting was announced in May. First dubbed HongMeng before morphing into HarmonyOS, the cross-platform IoT operating system was finally launched a week ago. But while the world wanted to see a lightning-fast smartphone platform, what they received instead was a clever, low-latency platform to power smart-TVs, cars and watches.
if the U.S. really does block Huawei’s access to Google, then it will have little choice but to magic up an alternative. And with its phenomenal balance sheet (and the backing of China inc) to play with, Huawei will conjure up an alternative. And on that note, Ren warned Google (and Apple and the U.S.) that “you cannot rule out the chance that the third operating system might outrun them someday.”