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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Samsung couldn't do it with tizen and now Huawei thinks they're better? It'll be another epic failure.

[–] Alphane_Moon 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But they have the benefit of Chinese state support and a massive captive market (with revanchist, imperialist tendencies).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly. The path for success is clear as there's clear need and public investment to back it up.

[–] ByteMe 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be honest, they didn't want to but they were banned from google and lost play services so they might drop android altogether

[–] deafboy 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Google Play services. Replacing the google services with another proprietary crap would be nothing (and cost relatively nothing) compared to building an entire operating system almost from scratch. This is a dick measuring contest. Although the chinese dick is shiny and impressive in this regard so far.

Plus, even google is playing with the idea of dropping linux, with the Fuchsia project.

[–] ByteMe 1 points 3 weeks ago

Didn't they abandon fuchsia?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

In China is easy. Once you give some millions to tencent/Alibaba/Baidu/bytedance (or having the government force them to do so) for porting their apps, it's all a Chinese citizen needs.

There are many apps that are actually "mini apps" (a WebView inside tencent WeChat)

When you enter China you need to register with the customs using said "mini app" in WeChat

90% of users exclusively use WeChat, alipay, Baidu, taobao, amaps, douyin (TikTok), xiaohongshu.

Maybe some could find useful to also have Weibo and pinduoduo (temu malware) but the "must have" apps are really a handful, it's not like in the west

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tizen was written from scratch. ~~From what I understand HarmonyOS is Android... at least it was forked from Android.~~ oh shit, I talked before reading.. sorry for that! :-D