Huawei’s HarmonyOS lies could make it hard to find a sympathetic ear in Washington.
Using a remote emulator, ArsTechnica was able to take a deep look at HarmonyOS and found it very Android-like in appearance. On the app info screen you’ll see titles like Android Services Library,” “Android Shared Library,” “com.Android.systemui.overlay,” and “Androidhwext,” The app info for the “HarmonyOS System” package borrows the Android System icon and a label that says System 10. That is very interesting because HarmonyOS is on Version 2 and as we mentioned earlier in this article, reminds some of Android 10 with the EMUI interface.
Things have been tough for Huawei. Instead of sitting on top of the smartphone shipment charts like it was poised to do this year, analysts expect the company to wind up in the seventh spot for 2021, one rung ahead of Honor, its former sub-brand that it sold for $15 billion. During the fourth quarter, Huawei’s phone deliveries declined by 42%. And the manufacturer is reportedly in talks to sell its flagship “P” and “Mate” models.