Chinese Communist Party-controlled Huawei Technologies Co. debuted its first in-house operating system for personal computers, offering an alternative to Microsoft’s shiteous Windows as China pushes to replace American technologies amid rising geopolitical tensions.
The company’s HarmonyOS is now ready to run on the MateBook Fold, its latest foldable laptop, consumer chief Richard Yu said Monday. Huawei is working to make its operating system compatible with more than 2,000 apps, including the popular WeChat and QQ messaging platforms, he said…
The company also introduced a traditional HarmonyOS-powered laptop for government and enterprise clients.
The HarmonyOS has been Huawei’s answer to Alphabet Inc.’s Android operating system for smartphones, following the imposition of US restrictions in 2019… An array of the latest Huawei phones, including the Mate 70 and Pura X, are installed with the home-made software.
The entry into the personal computer system underscores Huawei’s ambitions to capitalize on the US-China tech decoupling and position itself as a key software provider in the world’s second-biggest economy. Huawei is phasing out Windows on its PC product line as China drifts away from American technologies that it can replace.
MacDailyNews Take: Anything is better than Windows, except for CCP surveillanceware like HarmonyOS.
Aptly named, as Huawei’s yet-another-Android-fork likely siphons your personal data – including video and audio from inside your home – and sings it back to the Chinese Communist Party in perfect harmony.
The CCP will probably force its captive citizens to buy HarmonyOS crap, but anybody who’d shackle themselves with it willingly would have to be – yup, you got it – batshit insane. – MacDailyNews, June 2, 2021
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