After the US ban, Huawei actually wants to be independent and recapture the market with its own developments. An analysis of Harmony OS 2.0 now shows that this is not as simple as Huawei has said in recent months.

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Huawei’s Harmony OS 2.0 is Android 10

When Huawei was no longer allowed to work with Google, the Chinese company announced Harmony OS, an Android alternative. Everything should become better, faster and more independent. For a short time, developers have been able to use Harmony OS 2.0 after an intensive test. As it turns out upon closer inspection, the Huawei operating system is just a good copy of Android, not a new operating system. ArsTechnica took a very close look and found that in Harmony OS 2.0 some areas were not even renamed. System apps even identify your own operating system as Android 10. This is not what Huawei promised and supposedly developed for months, the professionals quickly discover.

We are no longer surprised that Huawei has announced that Android apps will run without problems under Harmony OS 2.0 if they are basically the same operating system. Nothing would have changed on the surface anyway. Huawei also relies on EMUI for Harmony OS 2.0. It would be easy for users to get used to it. The change from Android to Harmony OS 2.0 would not have a positive effect if it was still essentially the Google operating system. You just changed the packaging. So it doesn’t matter whether a future Huawei phone will run with Harmony OS 2.0 or not. In the end it will probably stay with Android and you still don’t get access to the services and apps that you can’t use now.

Huawei has already copied Google Maps:

Huawei is in deep crisis

The last quarterly figures have shown that the sales of Huawei phones have plummeted. The Chinese company will have an extremely difficult time in Europe without Google apps and services. In the future, Google would also like to ban the manual installation of apps on unlicensed hardware, so that Huawei gets even more into trouble. Now it also turns out that Harmony OS 2.0 is basically Android 10. This certainly doesn’t make the situation any easier for Huawei.