Huawei OS Is 'Set for 2019 and Will Run Android Apps'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/05/21/huaweis-new-os-could-arrive-in-2019-and-run-android-apps-chinese-media-reports/

by zed88 • 7 years ago

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ganeshkrishnan• 7 years ago

Huawei that doesn't even allow users to unlock it's bootloader is working on their own OS? I think I will pass.

The charm of Huawei, Xiaomi and their likes is their amazing hardware not their spyware riddled softwares.

I bought a Xiaomi mi 9 and the first things I did was erase the Mi ROM and installed AOSP rom.

peterashford2• 7 years ago

Is there any proof of that spyware claim?

kumarvvr• 7 years ago

Why would the world even trust a Chinese company, backed by Chinese government, which has aggressive ambitions on the world stage, is politically fragile, authoritarian and routinely abuses basic human rights.

I mean, it's not just phones, Huawei deals in telecommunications equipment, has contracts with many European governments etc.

peterashford2• 7 years ago

Doesn't seem that different to the US, to me

huxflux• 7 years ago

America!

DiogenesKynikos2• 7 years ago

has aggressive ambitions on the world stage

Since its founding, the PRC has only fought two foreign wars, the last one being in 1979, in stark contrast to some other countries I could name. As a percentage of GDP, China spends about half what the US does on its military. It isn't China that has a dozen supercarrier fleets, it isn't China that has 600 overseas military bases, and it isn't China that has established military commands that span the Earth (China's territory falls under the American "Indo-Pacific Command," for example).

One could equally ask why the world should trust a company subject to the United States government. There is much more concrete evidence of American global surveillance than there is of Chinese global surveillance. The United States' foreign surveillance agency, the NSA, has a larger budget than all but a select few nations' militaries, not to mention intelligence services.

When it comes to surveillance, no one should trust any government (as a cute example, the Germans allowed the United States to build its massive new embassy right next to the Brandenburg Gate and the parliament building, and the United States repaid that kindness by installing equipment in the embassy to spy on the German parliament). China is no greater a worry than the United States is, and in practical terms, probably less of a worry. The concerns being expressed by the United States government at the moment are extremely hypocritical, and are driven by a larger fear of increasing Chinese global influence, which will eventually undermine the hegemonic position of the United States in the world.

dragonwriter• 7 years ago

Since its founding, the PRC has only fought two foreign wars, the last one being in 1979

That's true only for unusually large values of two or unusually narrow definitions of “foreign war” (Korean War, Burma border campaign, Sino-Indian War, Vietnam War, another war with India, a separate China-South Vietnam War, and then a China-Vietnam war.)

indentit• 7 years ago

Unless this new OS will be open source, I see no reason for anyone to trust it. There have been many other mobile OSes and they have all failed really...

Huawei OS Is 'Set for 2019 and Will Run Android Apps'

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