The new Huawei smartphone ignites the US and China technological war: what is it threatening

Android's own operating system, can be both China's advantage and Huawei smartphones sales. Huawei on November 26 is about to release its new flagship smartphone Mate 70 with the first Harmonyos Next operating system created in China. This is an indicator of significant progress of Chinese companies, despite sanctions from the US, writes Semafor. Previous Huawei smartphones have used an Android -based operating system, but Mate 70 will work completely on Chinese Harmonyos Next.

The company hopes that the system will be able to compete with systems that already exist on the market, including iOS from Apple and Android, which provide work with about 98% of all phones in the world. "This is an important turning point for China, it is due to the fear that the US can turn off everything," said Financial Times Technical Expert from a consulting firm.

The Economist said that it is very difficult to create a fully independent operating system, because it takes many developers to spend time creating applications specifically for it. This step can reduce Huawei smartphones sales, because there are already millions of applications for Android, and users will remain dissatisfied if they cannot use their loved ones. Most likely, they will choose another model for their convenience.

When the last Huawei smartphone was released in 2023, only about 100 applications were developed for its branded Harmonyos. According to South China Morning Post, as of October this year, their number was about 15,000, but in general, the company seeks up to 100,000. However, beta-testers and developers have stated that the system still has to go a certain way to become completely functional.

As a leading telecommunications company in China, Huawei found herself under the sight of the United States, which seeks to slow down the development of Chinese technologies and maintain its advantage. Washington introduced Huawei to the Black List in 2012 and limited the ability of US companies to cooperate with it. But she still got the status of a technological giant with the help of the Chinese government, which, according to Bloomberg, has allocated subsidies worth $ 30 billion.

The tense situation inside the US can play Huawei's hand, recently sales in China have increased sharply, while Apple has fallen. The Chinese giant has developed its high-performance chips and built a $ 1. 4 billion research center in Shanghai. It is rumored that the company also builds a secret network of semiconductor factories to bypass the US sanctions even more, Bloomberg reports.