Comment by nicce

Comment by nicce 2 days ago

8 replies

Huawei just created new OS and removed all traces of Android and Linux. Just like that. If there is will, it is possible.

fabrice_d 2 days ago

No, the phone variant of HarmonyOS runs on top of a Linux kernel.

kelnos 2 days ago

Can it run all of the kinds of apps that people (in the EU/US markets, which is relevant to the discussion at hand) actually want to run? SalifishOS doesn't even do that, at least not for me.

  • jajuuka 2 days ago

    If I remember correctly they have had a translation layer for android apps since they launched. But it's similar to what Apple has done with Rosetta 2 where it getting phased out for native apps only.

kube-system 2 days ago

The will to create an OS is 0.0001% of the problem. There are tens of thousands of applications that people need to use that exist only for iPhone and Android.

There are dozens of functional mobile OSes. And OS isn’t useful unless it has application support for the tasks people want to accomplish, though.

kaoD 2 days ago

...if there is will, a nice state sponsor and an already existing effective infrastructure.

Europe has none of the 3.