HarmonyOS

On June 22nd, Zhu Dongdong, President of the Tablet and PC Product Line at Huawei’s Consumer Business Group (BG), confirmed that HarmonyOS will support app side-load in Huawei Developer Conference 2025. This may reduce the lack of applications that affect the development of HarmonyOS, attracting more uses to the ecosystem. HarmonyOS is a well developed next-generation operating system. It brings the same experience across devices, from phones, tablets to PCs, smart watches, and even electric cars. Currently, the only shortcoming of HarmonyOS is its lack of app diversity. Unlike smartphones and tablets, once HarmonyOS PCs hit the market, users became more concerned about whether they could serve as productivity tools. Thus, this shortcoming has prevented lots of customers from buying a HarmonyOS PC. ...

According to Chinese media reports, QQ has completed the adaptation for Huawei HarmonyOS computers. WeChat and Enterprise WeChat are also accelerating their adaptation process and will be launched successively. This is undoubtedly a huge piece of good news for the HarmonyOS ecosystem. It is well known that the survival of a system depends on the application ecosystem built around it. Whether the system can attract users hinges on the availability of applications that meet their needs. In turn, the size of the user base determines the system’s appeal to developers—whether it can motivate more of them to develop and iterate applications for the platform. ...