The least strange news. After telling the four winds that they were prepared for a possible blackout by Google and its Android operating system, Huawei has declared that Hongmeng OS, which would be its replacement operating system to replace Android, it will not reach the phones.
Hongmeng OS won't come to phones
That's how clear Catherine Chen, Huawei's vice president, was at a round table in Brussels. The board has confirmed that Hongmeng OS it exists, but the intention is none other than to continue using Android, ensuring that said operating system is not designed to be implemented on mobile phones.
According to Chen, Hongmeng OS is registered for industrial use, and unlike mobile operating systems that have millions of lines of code, this Huawei solution has far fewer (hundreds of thousands). So why was the operating system talked about as alternative to android?
Has it been a strategy to reassure?
At the time that the United States officially published the famous Entity List, Huawei launched the speech of being prepared for what comes to them, claiming that they had an operating system with which to replace the Mountain View android. This sounded more or less reassuring, and is possibly what the manufacturer was looking for from the outset, to stop the massive drop in users.
From what we have seen, it seems that Hongmeng OS was a half-truth. The operating system existed and exists, it's fastIt is under development, and it will probably reach the Chinese market at the end of the year, but what about mobile phones? That may not be entirely accurate. The speech sounded convincing, but now that US-China relations appear to be finding a middle ground (actually the scales are tipping Trump's side, why deny it), Huawei may have taken a slight breather and started deploying the new discourse with which to order future events.
Is Huawei going to continue using Android?
Evidently. That was another of the phrases that the manufacturer launched. They were going to continue using the operating system and providing support as long as they had the slightest opportunity, and in case of losing the license... well, there is a solution (even if it is not particularly appropriate).
It is clear that, if Huawei has given these statements through its spokesperson, it is that the situation is beginning to see some light, otherwise they would not have risked so much. Now we will have the question what would be of Hongmeng OS as a mobile operating system, since in case of having to use it in an emergency, it seems that the solution sounded more like an operating system [insert industrial machinery here] on a smartphone.