HarmonyOS Will Compete With iOS in 2 Years, Claims Huawei CEO

Oct. 14, 2019

Therecently-unveiled HarmonyOSmay not yet be ready for commercial smartphones, but Huawei has big plans for it nonetheless. In an interview to Fortune Magazine last week, the company’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, reportedly claimed that the software will be good enough to compete with Apple’s iOS in just two to three years’ time. He also apparently said that the timeline is, if anything, on the conservative side, and it may take substantially less time in reality.

Known as HongMeng in China, HarmonyOS wasunveiled by Huaweion the first day of its annual Developer Conference in Dongguan City back in August. While it is designedprimarily for IoT devicessuch as smart displays, televisions, wearables, smart speakers and automobiles, Harmony is also expected to power smartphones in the future, although the company is yet to provide any details about that officially.

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