Although we have been hearing about HarmonyOS for a long time and the great advantages it will offer to our mobile phones, many are those who have doubts about Huawei’s own operating system . This leads us to contemplate the most negative scenarios, in which Huawei faces complex problems that cannot be solved no matter how much it invests.
Now that users in China are enjoying the first beta versions of HarmonyOS , we are much closer to the renewed Huawei operating system reaching Spain and other countries. This will begin to cause many users with a Huawei mobile, of the many that can be updated, have to decide if they want to make the leap to HarmonyOS, or prefer to continue with their smartphone as before. This raises even more doubts in the terminals that have Google apps, as they could lose them forever.
Not all applications are available
The main problem lies in the applications, since you cannot use apps developed for Android directly in HarmonyOS. The process has its differences and it will not be easy for large apps to also be on Huawei’s system. We already find prestigious apps that are not in common between iOS and Android, so with a new option things can get even more complicated.
So far there are 134,000 applications that are already present in the Huawei application store, along with more than 4 million registered developers. Figures that impress for the short time that the system has been operating, but that are far from reaching the more than 3 million applications available on Android . Where Huawei has to put the spotlight is on the most downloaded apps, because so far not all of them are fully available, resorting in many cases to web versions that do not convince anyone. Their challenge is above all in the banks, there are many who refuse to be present in AppGallery, therefore they make it difficult for those who have a Huawei mobile to want to lose access to their bank details.
Without Google, there is no party
Of course, as we lose Android, we will be losing Google applications. The extensive list of essential apps for users becomes another big problem for the Chinese manufacturer. Without being able to offer Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube or Drive among others, we are resigned to using web versions that do not have the advantages of these services. For now Huawei is working on alternatives, although which are not the least bit close to what Google already offers.
Security, in the spotlight
The change of operating system not only has to do with the apps that we will be able to use, but also in the way in which user data will be treated, one of the reasons why Huawei has suffered the veto imposed by the States United. This leads the manufacturer to consider a problem that perhaps had not even been raised: it needs the trust of users .
HarmonyOS will have to demonstrate that the data it collects will not be used in a bad way, that it will be anonymous and that in a general way, we can be calm with our mobile in hand. In the Chinese market this confidence seems simpler, worse in Europe is where it has the big problem so that people do not think twice when buying a smartphone.
Is Huawei able to take care of everything?
The development of HarmonyOS is involving a great job for Huawei, which will not come to an end once everything is ready, but will be the beginning. Huawei will have to continue working continuously on the problems that will appear, on the new needs of users and on trying not to lose sight of everything that the competition will offer. This raises the question of whether Huawei will be able to keep up, while it has to keep all mobile phones updated with security patches, new features for the system and all this in a wide range of devices. Ultimately, Huawei will have to learn to be Google and that is not something that anyone can endure for a long time.
