One the other hand this is good for consumers. For a few years we used to make fun of HarmonyOS being a knockoff of Android, but we have now reached a point where they are due to cut Android compatibility out. They have a new polyglot UI stack that seems quite performant. Basically we now have a 3rd big smartphone mobile operating system that is about to hit global markets.
However a few years ago Huawei started locking their bootloaders, so I have to wonder how much of the UI stack is actually going to be open source.
I don't know too much about it but it seems to have some similarities to react native. Raycast changed my opinion on react native based apps on macos, and I think linux could benefit from such a thing, although I have only little hope that ArkUI will run on vanilla Linux.
The present HarmonyOS is a placeholder for that.
Android is based on Linux (UNIX clone, 60s), IOS is based on Mach (80s design).
HarmonyOS is a contemporary design, following current state of the art in system architecture, far more advanced than these two systems.
They are, ironically, ahead.
EDIT: I just looked it up, that's awesome. It's pretty amazing that everyone was bashing Huawei and Harmony for so long, but they finally managed to pull it off.
Do you have any reference that breaks down the system architecture into more details than whats in the wikipedia article?
Having one less option is never a boon.
Completely different from that of China. US big tech are own by individual organizations out of US government and cooperate with it. Huawei benefits people from CCP directly.
The US kills off Huawei’s access to Google Android and TSMC. Almost completely killing their consumer business.
But then hands them a lifeline: you can buy chips at Qualcomm (but not Mediatek) and Intel (but not AMD). Allowing them to maintain a presence in consumer phones and laptops.
Now 5 years later when they have finally built their own operating system and setup their own fabs - the US kills access to Intel and Qualcomm.
Why?