It just seems like common sense that if you impose sanctions, tariffs, embargoes, etc. at a wide enough scale to a determined enough "adversary", they will just become more resilient, self-sufficient, and antagonistic than they were if simply left alone.<p>I don't know the answers to the questions of international cooperation and economic imbalances, but I am pretty confident that this is not the way. I haven't seen sufficient evidence to the contrary.<p>All of that being said, it's great to see a new operating system that (if I understand correctly) isn't just derived from an existing one.
I find it interesting not only that HarmonyOS is using a microkernel but also that its userland application language is compiled TypeScript.<p><a href="https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/harmonyos-guides-V5/typescript-to-arkts-migration-guide-V5" rel="nofollow">https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/harmonyos-guide...</a><p>I'd certainly be interested in benchmarks of running TypeScript via ArkTS vs transpiled JS in in V8.
I feel great about a competing OS to further the imagination of developers and service providers to make their offerings more platform independent.<p>I feel great about a third platform pushing the UI space to something newer (like iOS created touch centric UI).<p>I feel great about a new approach to kernel science. (Like ChromeOS did).<p>But I am afraid of a bill-gates era move to crush competitors. (Let’s credit BG for making the innovation space un-innovative deeply linear and unifying!)<p>And I am afraid of the interfaces I have come to love be destroyed and brought to ruin by “copying” upcoming platforms (like in Windows 8/10/11).<p>And I am afraid that consumers and developers will be segmented and overwhelmed with new styles of doing things that they will give up entirely.
I'm confused by the premise here, as repeated in the title and initial sentence:<p><i>Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its first laptop that runs the company’s self-developed operating system, HarmonyOS, following the expiration of its Microsoft Windows license for personal computers (PCs) in March.</i><p>What kind of Windows license are we talking about here? I understood that Huawei is a hardware manufacturer. Any Windows license on a laptop they deliver would be an OEM license attached to the device, right? Are they saying that Huawei lost its contract to sell Windows OEM licenses with the devices it manufactures?<p>Is that a thing? Does Microsoft say to hardware makers that no, you cannot sell your hardware with Windows? What kind of dispute between Microsoft and Huawei leads to that outcome?
Nightmare for US is PRC throwing 10000s developers and billions at creating domestic professional photo/video/3d/cad editting software integrated into PRC cloud and giving it away for cheap/free/piracy.
From the HarmonyOS webpage:<p>>Make development enjoyable with distributed technologies<p>>Hardware synergy for resource sharing<p>>HarmonyOS treats different smart devices into a single super device, behind which all devices work collaboratively and share their resources to offer a seamless experience for users.<p>Does anyone know what this means, because it sounds amazing. Does the OS natively VPN all your devices and expose their storage/computes/etc in a Plan9-esque way?
Hopefully they can make it decent. Always looking for a good competitor.<p>For now sticking with MacOS<p>One of the clear benefits of US/China’s Trade War is that we are seeing competitors to monopolies on both sides as both countries fear decoupling has a decent probability of happening and they don’t want to be left short.
Aside from HarmonyOS, this was the first time I've heard about WPS Office. It's amazing that it's been around for so long and apparently is so widely used, yet this is the first I'm learning about it.
Too bad they did not go with Linux, but like M/S and Apple I guess the want to "protect" their users.<p>But it does look interesting and they probably have a huge worldwide market that the US is now locking themselves out of.