Huawei's homegrown operating system, launched after the company was put on a U.S. blacklist, may soon overtake Apple's iOS in China (fortune.com)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 12:18
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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 12:38 next collapse

It’s no surprise at all considering how ecosystem and China focused it is

merde@sh.itjust.works on 13 May 2024 14:08 next collapse

donald’s contribution to making China great again 🤭

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 14:22 collapse

genocide joe continued exactly the same policies, it’s a team effort

merde@sh.itjust.works on 14 May 2024 00:30 collapse

👉 The Daily: How Biden Adopted Trump’s Trade War With China

if you think joe is “genocide”, wait and see what will happen when donald goes back into the white house!

where were these protests when it was the U.$. itself that was doing the invading? They probably thought that there were no civilians hurt in Iraq?

“genocide joe” 🤦

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 14 May 2024 00:40 collapse

I don’t need to wait and see, genocide is being committed right now. I also love how you use the fact that US committed prior atrocities to justify this one. Brilliant defence!

merde@sh.itjust.works on 14 May 2024 02:14 collapse

what’s happening in Palestine cannot be justified.

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 14:32 next collapse

It’s just Android with a skin no?

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 14:52 next collapse

no

BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 13 May 2024 15:00 collapse

Thanks, we definitely did not need any further information or sources from your reply. /s

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 15:04 next collapse

I keep forgetting that using google is challenging for people www.openharmony.cn/mainPlay/

[deleted] on 13 May 2024 20:29 next collapse

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[deleted] on 13 May 2024 20:53 collapse

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RecallMadness@lemmy.nz on 15 May 2024 00:32 collapse

I thought everyone decided “jfgi” in online discourse was a toxic years ago. It’s the same attitude as :

chemtrails make you sick!

How so?

go do your own research

If you’re going report on something, provide a little more information than just “no”. It’s more helpful, better for the community, and in 5 years time when the facts are different, there’ll still be a reference of what was factual in the past.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 15 May 2024 00:44 collapse

The flip side of this argument is people asking for references for things that are well known and completely not controversial, as happens to be the case here. We’re not talking about some conspiracy theory. We’re talking about the basic fact that OpenHarmony exists, and this fact is trivially verifiable. This is known as sealoining.

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 13 May 2024 15:51 collapse

Get used to it, this guy is terminally online.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 16:15 next collapse

aww my favorite troll is back

TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 22:42 collapse

In all fairness, I also see you often online. Mirror mirror?

I often go offline for a whole day outside of checking moderation queue, or sometimes even few days.

Buelldozer@lemmy.today on 13 May 2024 15:34 next collapse

It was when it started but that hasn’t been accurate for the past two releases.

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 21:28 collapse

I googled an article, said they started off as modder AOSP and are now not able to run Android apps anymore?

huaweicentral.com/harmonyos-next-is-more-than-jus…

The gibberish about HarmonyOS “optimization” makes no sense though. One doesn’t simply rip out the whole kernel from an OS.

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 13 May 2024 15:51 collapse

Did you expect originality over blatant design theft?

[deleted] on 13 May 2024 14:46 next collapse

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TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 22:41 collapse

I would prefer my OSes not built in NATO countries, thanks. My Windows AME is extremely despywared, otherwise I would not be using it as second OS either.

KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 May 2024 08:29 collapse

Careful, the mods consider what I said radical and breaking lemmy rules (gestures vaguely). Apparently independent operating systems are a taboo here.

TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml on 14 May 2024 10:46 collapse

I did not remove it, and I do not think your xenophobic pity is required here about OSes made outside of USA. You would probably have been okay if a European country, submissive to USA, would have made such a compromised OS, so that their ChatControl and all those shenanigans would be part of it I guess?

KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 May 2024 21:24 collapse

Not sure where you’re getting that from but okay. I’m not going to argue with you. I also didn’t know that stating that a political party is shit was xenophobic, I’ll keep that in mind for the future. I hope you have a great day.

nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br on 13 May 2024 14:53 next collapse

It would be more interesting if it was open source.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 14:58 collapse

core of HarmonyOS is open source though www.openharmony.cn

nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br on 13 May 2024 15:02 collapse

I didn’t know about that, thanks

gnygnygny@lemm.ee on 13 May 2024 15:04 next collapse

It’s android based. They’ve tried to suppress all pieces mentioning it and they don’t wanna speak about when the subject is mentioned.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 15:17 collapse

It’s diverged quite a bit now, and nowhere did I see anybody deny that it’s android based. What’s the source for “hey don’t wanna speak about when the subject is mentioned”?

gnygnygny@lemm.ee on 14 May 2024 22:48 collapse

The source is there : arstechnica.com/…/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-andr… It’s explained also there en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS into the section Criticism

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 14 May 2024 23:27 collapse

oh wow an article from 2021 and a criticism section on wikipedia referencing the same article. Tthat sure is current in 2024!

gnygnygny@lemm.ee on 15 May 2024 15:18 collapse

I read it recently here and yes it’s pretty old effectively. Since they done HarmonyOS NEXT apparently three times more efficient than Linux. It will not be compatble with APK.

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 13 May 2024 15:50 next collapse

As shocking as when I learned the cuisine in China is Chinese.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 21:35 next collapse

i only support software that is open source. if its proprietary it might as well be as bad as fucking apple.

now if these phones are bootloader unlocked and can run postmarketos or android…

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 21:39 collapse

it is open source www.openharmony.cn

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 21:58 collapse

last i heard about huawei they were bootloader locked though

and isnt it mostly closed with some open parts?

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 13 May 2024 22:13 collapse

My understanding is that it’s mostly open.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 14 May 2024 21:52 collapse

even if it is, if they have locked bootloaders, it really defeats the purpose. devices we buy are ours, not the manufacturer’s

i havent been able to find info on whether or not they are locked in 2024 from a quick search, but last i heard they were pretty adamant about locking them down tight which is not something i can cheer on.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 14 May 2024 21:57 collapse

I don’t really follow your logic, since the open source OS itself is not tied to the bootloader. This is code that could be run on phones with open bootloaders. Everybody benefits from Huwawei developing an open source operating system as far as I can tell. So, not sure what you can’t get behind here.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 14 May 2024 22:46 collapse

this is more or less what the larger open source philosophy advocates for. let me try to explain: its a combination of open software and open hardware.

part of the point of open source is running our own software in our own hardware. that makes us independent of what a given company might want in relation to how long it will last, how long it will be updated for security, what parts of it they want you to use vs what you want to take away to get a little more out of the hardware, how much they will spy on you and by extension how you can use modern tech to dissent, how you can repair or augment it, and even what OS you want to use.

most of the cool new tricks electronics can do are mostly due to software, and old dogs can learn new tricks if they are unlocked. locking it limits what you can do with a given phone and what groups of specialized end users can do to improve it for the benefit of the community at large.

a few examples: how my xiaomi doesn’t get official security updates after a couple of years anymore, but any xiaomi owner can unlock it and run a custom, secure and updated version of it made and supported by the community. or how i have a couple of 10ish yr old laptops that are fast and i can still use as normal because i’m free to get linux in it thanks to a community of companies, individuals and volunteers, despite their manufacturers not even acknowledging their existence anymore. or how we can ‘fix’ cheaper samsungs by replacing their shitty software with something more usable in slower hardware. this is a sliver of what is made possible by hardware freedom.

sometimes i feel non technical people are mostly taught about tech in this mystifying kind of way and kind of fear it, like its all magic the wizards at some google concocted to us and no one else is as great as their magic, but its just technology that can be instinctively sort of understood if they are designed in a way that doesn’t put it all behind curtains.

with that said: you can’t really use the awesome hardware huawei is putting out lately for anything other than the narrow scope they define, which is a big waste almost as stupid as apple putting an expensive computer-level cpu in iphones and not bothering to make computer-level stuff for it, and locking it down so tight the community can’t figure out how to do it themselves.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 14 May 2024 23:32 collapse

I get why people want open source running on open hardware. However, my point is that the code for HarmonyOS is perfectly usable for that. So, again, I fail to see what the problem with supporting the development of an open source mobile operating system that could be used on open hardware, once it exists, in the future. The thing you’re describing doesn’t really exist right now, aside from some very niche Linux phone projects that can’t be used as daily drivers by most people.

Sometimes I feel like people who get too much into open source ideology start missing the forest for the trees.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 15 May 2024 00:16 collapse

nah. completely open hardware is still a pipe dream, i’m not disputing this. i guess i’m demoting the meaning of “open” in a way here. i’ll repeat myself here to make it clear:

this is a sliver of what is made possible by hardware freedom.

i gave a couple of real world examples of the thing i’m describing too, and some use cases we directly benefit from, so it exists because i’m literally holding it in my hand right now. open source software on open enough hardware is already a thing and i see no reason i should cheer for a backslide from this while i can get an us-branded device unlocked.

open hardware schematics used to be ubiquitous with no real disadvantage, now we rely on leaks so we don’t just chuck a perfectly good expensive item in the trash, and while huawei follows this western trend of throwaway hardware at the expense of mounting garbage piles and difficult financial situations to replace them, theres not a single reason any of us should be happy with it. and then theres the other wasteful practice of spending an inhuman amount of resources putting a cutting-edge really powerful chip on a device that can’t be used as such because the manufacturer doesn’t want you to. again, Apple-level antics here.

the worst part about it is that huawei did all of this better than most of the planet before and decided to stop it!!! fucking hell, other chinese manufacturers still do it right!! why make it worse??

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 15 May 2024 00:19 collapse

I agree with that, there’s a lot more to be done to get to truly open stacks, and it is unfortunate Huawei decided to make their stuff less open. I’m just pointing out that there is still value in open stuff they do publish.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 15 May 2024 01:04 collapse

there is! there is always value in open source code made by professionals, always something we can learn or use. but its half the equation.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 15 May 2024 01:43 collapse

I agree, fully open hardware and software stack is a laudable goal that we should continue to strive for.

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 May 2024 22:17 collapse

National Sovereignty done right