Huawei’s operating system HarmonyOS reached 600 million users

In 2019, the United States imposed harsh sanctions against Huawei Technologies, cutting off this Chinese company’s access to advanced chip technologies as well as Google’s Android software infrastructure. As a result, the Chinese giant developed the HarmonyOS operating system for client devices and EulerOS for server systems and continues to expand its user base to this day.

Investment in HarmonyOS will continue

According to Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder and CEO, the company he founded will be successful under the pressure of US sanctions, although it will be difficult at times. According to Zhengfei, about 30 types of HarmonyOS operating systems are currently used in China, installed on smartphones, tablets and industrial equipment, and the total number of users of the platform reaches 600 million people. Huawei will continue to invest the labor of thousands of developers and billions of dollars of capital every year for the development of this ecosystem, including server-based EulerOS.

Huawei’s enterprise cloud ecosystem runs on the EulerOS platform, and other industrial partners in China will also connect to it. It is remarkable that even after all the harsh US sanctions that have hit Huawei, the company’s founder does not find it shameful to adopt the best practices of the Americans. In order for Huawei to develop its human resources and scientific potential, at least as he believes, China needs to create conditions for experts and developers as attractive as the United States.