Huawei says its home-made Android and Windows replacements will be ready by the end of this year

Huawei’s home-me answer to Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows operating systems will be rey soon and company will be rey to deploy m in China by autumn this year in worst-case scenario. ir international counterparts will be rey for rollout by Q1 or Q2 of 2020, Huawei’s he of consumer business Richard Yu said in an interview with CNBC. 

"Today, Huawei, we are still committed to Microsoft Windows and Google Android," Yu told CNBC. "But if we cant use that, Huawei will prepare plan B to use our own OS." 

t a lot is kwn about Huawei’s alternate takes on Android and Windows, but a recent report suggested that platform(s) was currently on trial in China – Huawei's Android replacement is reportedly called HongMeng. 

“We don’t want to do this but we will forced to do that because of U.S. government. I think US, this kind of thing, will also t only be b news for us, but also b news for US companies because we support US business, so we will be forced to do this on our own. We don’t want to do this but we have or solution, or choice.” 

Building an alternative to Android (or Windows) won’t be easy, but Huawei may pull this off – real challenge will be to convince developers to build apps for it. Huawei may t have to deal with same problems in China because Google is literally absent from market, even though most Chinese ROMs are built on top of Android. But getting international users on-board will be easier said than done – Android is world’s largest operating system (in terms of user base), powering more devices than one can imagine, for a reason. 

Huawei has been in thick of things lately. Chinese conglomerate has been effectively barred from using Android in long-term following a recent US tre clampdown. Even though Android is open source and even though Huawei is free to use this open source version of Android (called AOSP), Google has been grually moving OS essentials out – which means a large part of Android that we use w isn’t open source per se. This includes everything from Google Play Store to apps like Google Maps and Gmail. Without proper authorization from Google, Huawei can’t even update its existing Android devices with latest security patches. And Google can’t authorize that until it gets a go-ahe from US government. 

Although Trump ministration has given a 90-day reprieve to Huawei to sort of ease into things (so it could possibly ensure existing devices aren’t affected), future of Huawei hardware (Android or orwise) seems rar dark for w – which is why, it has a ‘plan B’ in place to build its own operating system. Just in case. 

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