The goal of Huawei's Hongmeng Ecology: a market share of more than 16%

On September 10, Huawei officially launched HarmonyOS 2.0 (HarmonyOS 2.0), and announced that it would donate the code of Harmony OS to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation for open source incubation. As soon as the news came out, HarmonyOS became the most concerned open source project in the history of Chinese software that day, and the number of visits, collections, and downloads far exceeded expectations.

Recently, InfoQ participated in a media communication meeting with the theme of "Building a HarmonyOS Ecosystem Together". The interviewee was Yang Haisong, Vice President of Huawei Consumer BG Software Department. In this communication meeting, Yang Haisong explained and explained the boundaries, plans, goals and expectations of HarmonyOS ecology and other related topics one by one.

Huawei once proposed that "ecological union can break through boundaries and create infinite possibilities." Yang Haisong said that for Hongmeng, its boundaries can be understood from the following points:

We have come to the era of the Internet of Everything. In the past ten years, the number of IoT devices per capita has increased by 5 times. Although the number of IoT devices around is increasing, the experience is fragmented.

The so-called breakthrough of the physical boundary is to break through the physical boundary of each single physical device, and use the distributed soft bus, distributed data management and distributed security capabilities to integrate all isolated devices into a super terminal, and provide consumer services in the IoT era. Or bring the ultimate experience of seamless integration.

Current devices, especially IoT devices, are almost all sold at one time. Once the device is sold, what functions it originally had, these functions will remain. In the future, Huawei hopes to continuously explore and improve the hardware capabilities and experience of current IoT devices through hot software upgrades. Originally isolated IoT devices can be continuously activated and applied to various fields of consumer clothing, food, housing and transportation, and their functions can be continuously improved. In this way, the boundary of time can be broken, so that everyone can experience the common and always new experience.

Whether it is a hardware developer or an application developer, Huawei hopes to empower its partners to make their products more competitive, so that their products can be used by thousands of people, and often new.

In the early days of HarmonyOS ecological construction, Huawei's head partners would ask this question: "What is my position in your ecosystem?"

The answer is very clear. What Huawei wants is to sell "1+8+N" products and services well for developers/partners. They are now doing "N" and making their own products, such as Midea and Joyoung. We hope their Goods can sell well.

Will Huawei make hoods and household products? Won't. The space in this part will be reserved for partners to innovate, and they will provide services to consumers and share the value of this part. It is enough for Huawei to sell its "1+8" well, improve product competitiveness, and increase consumer stickiness and repurchase. It is hoped that after the partners' products are equipped with HarmonyOS, their competitiveness can be improved, they can get rid of homogeneous competition, increase consumer stickiness, and provide good services to consumers together. In short, whether it is an application developer or a device developer, Huawei hopes to use the HarmonyOS ecosystem to empower partners to help them better obtain the market space in the era of the Internet of Everything.

For partners and developers, the long-term plan of HarmonyOS is "one third of the world".

Huawei has insight into the historical trend of the mobile OS market. Many giants in the industry have tried to build their own operating systems, including Microsoft, Blackberry, and Nokia.If an operating system wants to survive and gain a firm foothold, the bottom line of market share is 16%, which is a life-and-death line, so now I hope to quickly cross this life-and-death line.

For HarmonyOS, this 16% means that Huawei's self-developed products and third-party products must be able to quickly scale up. At least in the Chinese market, more and more partners are required to be able to carry HarmonyOS.

Without a certain amount of installed capacity, consumers will not be able to experience the super terminal experience that Huawei imagined. If only the mobile phone is equipped with HarmonyOS, it will not be able to enjoy the experience brought by multi-device integration, so Huawei needs to increase the volume quickly, which is an ecological goal.

With such a big goal, Huawei expects to serve the vast number of developers, and developers are God.

At this year's HDC conference, Huawei has released HarmonyOS 2.0 version to developers, and released 4 key components for application users, including API/SDK, distributed application framework, development tool DevEco2.0 and compiler Ark. SDK, a full set of source code, development tools and development board modules are also released for hardware developers. In the future, Hongmeng's plan must be to continuously upgrade according to the needs of developers. At the same time, Huawei hopes to open source the entire HarmonyOS ecosystem with the developer community, and hopes to reach more and more developers.

• Based on distributed SDK. Small, mega-level software components can be directly integrated to enjoy distributed single-point capabilities. For example, the ability to cast screens, as long as a small SDK is installed, it can be connected to Huawei devices to realize one-click screen projection.
• Based on the open-source source code of this HDC conference, you can directly download the source code from the open-source website, integrate HarmonyOS into the hardware device, and add the software to the ecology.
• It is planned to open source for 128M to 4G attached devices in April next year, but now it has started targeted recruitment, and these devices will come in advance to do hardware innovation together.

From the perspective of the ecological construction of the mobile OS industry, Huawei is targeting a large number of developers. In the near future, the number of developers is likely to exceed one million. Faced with such a volume, how should Hongmeng provide technical support?

In the initial stage of the entire ecological construction, that is, the initial stage of starting from 0 to 1, Huawei will provide technical support based on the open source community. At present, the source code of Hongmeng has been donated to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation. There is a governance group for open source projects based on industry standards. There is a technical committee under the group, and each software module and component of the technical committee is selected according to the contribution of the code. The person in charge, they will answer the questions of the community. The trend, technology, and architecture of the OpenHarmony project in the future will all be determined by the Foundation. Huawei has only one vote here, and it needs all the manufacturers to work together to build it, and the flames will be high if everyone contributes firewood.

Therefore, Huawei is only the initial contributor, donating the code to the foundation, and the subsequent support will be mainly based on the foundation. Yang Haisong said that Huawei welcomes all industry partners, manufacturers, and developers to build the HarmonyOS ecosystem together, just like the "starry sky" mentioned by Mr. Yu at the press conference, and hopes that every developer will contribute their own "starlight"