Huawei P50 is the first new smartphone with Harmony OS. I am waiting for this beautiful catastrophe

Huawei has been going uphill for a long time. Not only its sales in European countries has been practically negligible for a long time, but also - it may soon be ousted from the only industry in which it is still a leader, i.e. building infrastructure for 5G networks. However, in the smartphone industry, customers do not see how difficult the conditions are, but what someone offers value for money, so the Chinese company had to come up with something very quickly to show buyers outside China that it is worth taking an interest in their smartphones. And they figured out that the greatest demonstration of strength would be to create your own operating system, which would be the third force on the market alongside Android and iOS. To this day, I remember Huawei dreaming about the power of this system, which was to be built from scratch and first designed to support IoT devices, and only later adapted to smartphones. Such a development path would suggest that we are actually dealing with a product built from scratch, something completely different than the competition present on the market. Something that actually gives you potential.

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However, the closer to the premiere, the more information surfaced. One report after another suggested that we are not dealing with a breakthrough in the smartphone world, or even something special. Huawei simply took generally available Android without GMS (i.e. the one that is currently in the company's new smartphones) and permanently installed its EMUI overlay. Moreover, it is a system made in such a way that although it tries to hide its links with Android, the developers did not want to change the names of the libraries, so there are so many references to the Google system throughout HarmonyOS that even a child would realize that it is not Huawei's own system. . If we compare it with the official position of Huawei:

HarmonyOS is a completely new operating system based on a distributed architecture developed by Huawei. It was designed with the needs of the future in mind, in which we will work within a complex system of interconnected IoT devices.

we can draw our own conclusions about HarmonyOS.

And yes - I am of the opinion that for many less tech-savvy people, just changing the name will be enough to make them believe that they are dealing with a different system. What's more, if Huawei actually fulfills its promises to send this "new" system to existing smartphones, it may soon turn out that the company will announce a great success, because HarmonyOS will be on a large percentage of devices. It's just that ... it won't change anything. Huawei will still not have access to the Google store, you will still have to rely on the App Gallery store, and due to reliance on Android (and even in version 10), the system will not have a single feature that other devices on the market do not have.

The bigger you are, the louder you fall - the premiere of the smartphone with HarmonyOS in the days

According to the leaks, HarmonyOS will be presented at the conference on April 24. 3 days later, Huawei will show its new flagship, the P50 model. This means that the P50 will be the first new smartphone with HongmengOS / HarmonyOS. According to Huawei, the system will also be distributed to existing smartphones, starting with the Huawei Mate X2. However, I have no doubts that the P50 will be the first contact with the new OS for most people and a moment of disappointment for those who still believe that it will be able to "confuse" the market.

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In my opinion - it will not. HarmonyOS will not be buried as quickly as Firefox OS or Tizen, because it will be able to work without problems, for example in China, which do without GMS anyway. However, in Europe it will not bring any revolution, and if I had to guess what would distinguish the new system, I would say that telemetry is even more aggressive than in the case of Google.

Therefore, I am afraid that in this case the high-profile announcements will turn out to be the nail in the Huawei coffin outside of China. We have already seen many times that when someone announces a revolution and does not deliver results (see Cyberpunk), even the most faithful fans turn against a given brand.