Yes, Huawei has a new mobile OS in the works and might be releasing it soon. Some people are celebrating it as a "new alternative" on the mobile market that can break the Apple-Google duopoly. Those people are not seeing the big picture and are missing the point.
The main challenge faced by Huawei smart phones is not the OS, is the lack of Google services. Who outside of China would buy a smartphone with no Youtube, Google Maps, Google Search or Google Assistant?
A home grown Chinese mobile OS addresses none of those issues.
Could Huawei try to relicate Google's services and build their own Youtube, Search and Maps? They sure can, but that ain't easy or cheap. Just ask Microsoft or Baidu how that initiative is working out for them. And on top of that, they now need to design their own semi-conductors. From scratch.
Can Huawei be an effective consumer hardware maker, chip maker, telecom infrastructure maker, a mobile OS company and an Internet service company? That is a lot of things to juggle all at once.
Submitted May 28, 2019 at 03:20PM by cambeiu http://bit.ly/2EE9k85 via TikTokTikk
No comments:
Post a Comment