Huawei Hongmeng version 2.0 will be released soon. Is Hongmeng Android? You'll know after reading it

On September 11, 2020, Hongmeng OS version 2.0, a distributed operating system independently developed by Huawei, will be released. This information has attracted a lot of attention. The first domestic operating system has attracted much attention.

However, some netizens said: Hongmeng is actually Android, and it is not open for use so far because Hongmeng is just a marketing tool of Huawei, and they call it "coaxing".

Is Hongmeng the Android system of Google? I can tell you responsibly that it is definitely not the case. Because Hongmeng is a distributed operating system for the Internet of Everything, and Google’s Android is just a smartphone system. The two are not the same thing at all.

Since there is a dispute, let’s clarify it instead of making judgments based on assumptions and guesses.

First, let’s take a look at the Android system:

Android means robot, so everyone sees that Android’s LOGO is a robot.

According to the definition of Baidu Encyclopedia, Android is a free and open source operating system based on the Linux kernel (excluding GNU components). Please note that there are two keywords here: freedom and open source. Since it is free and open, it means that Android does not belong to Google.

Why do people naturally associate Google with Android? There is an interesting past story here.

Andy Rubin, one of the leaders of Android development, was originally an engineer at Apple. In 1990, he wrote a software called Magic Cap in a new Apple company. Thing, this is a smartphone operating system and interface. But because the design was too advanced, no one in the company accepted it, and Andy Rubin was later forced to leave Apple.

After leaving Apple, Andy Rubin and a few friends established a company called "Danger". Foreigners' minds are really different, and they are so surprised to pick a company name.禦. Rubin and his colleagues further improved their original invention, adding a wireless receiver and converter to the device, naming it the Sidekick, and turning it into an Internet-enabled smartphone.

In early 2002, Rubin met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while giving a lecture to Silicon Valley engineers at Stanford University. This was the first time that the two met. Rubin bonded. After class, Page walked to Rubin to look at Sidekick and found that Google had been listed as the default search engine. Maybe this is fate.

In October 2003, Andy Rubin and others founded the Android company and formed the Android team. In 2005, it was acquired by Google. On November 5, 2007, Google officially demonstrated this operating system called Android to the outside world, and on this day Google announced the establishment of a global alliance organization.

The organization is jointly composed of 34 mobile phone manufacturers, software developers, telecom operators and chip manufacturers, and is open to 84 hardware manufacturers, software developers and telecom operators. Open Handset Alliance. *** jointly develops and improves the Android system. This alliance will support mobile operating systems and application software released by Google. Google releases the source code of Android under the authorization of the Apache free open source license.

Strictly speaking, Android belongs to the Open Handheld Device Alliance. The Android everyone uses now is just the version of Android developed by Google itself. It is widely used around the world, so everyone thinks Android is from Google. , in fact, any member of this alliance can develop its own operating system based on the Android kernel.

Our country’s companies that have joined the Open Handheld Device Alliance include China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, Asus, Huawei, ZTE, etc. Huawei joined the Open Handheld Device Alliance as early as December 9, 2008. Companies joining during the same period include: Vodafone, SoftBank, ARM, Asus, Garmin, Sony, Ericsson, Toshiba, Dell, etc.

Therefore, Huawei is fully qualified to develop its own operating system based on Android. As for Huawei's later use of Google's Android system, this is just a business behavior and a support for Google as a member of this alliance. Some netizens said: Hongmeng is compatible with Google's Android system, which proves that Huawei is plagiarizing, because Apple, Microsoft, and Android are not compatible with each other. If Hongmeng and Android are not the same system, how can they be compatible?

Netizens who have this view are because they do not understand the history of Android and the structure of the Open Handheld Device Alliance, because Huawei's Hongmeng and Google's Android are basically the original Android versions, and of course they are compatible.

In fact, Google’s Android is not called Android. Each version of Google’s Android has its own name, named in order: cupcake (Android 1.5), donut (Android 1.6), muffin ( Android 2.0/2.1), Frozen Yogurt (Android 2.2), Gingerbread (Android 2.3), Honeycomb (Android 3.0), Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), Jelly Bean (Android4.1 and Android 4.2), KitKat , Android 4.4), Lollipop (Android 5.0), Marshmallow (Android 6.0), Nougat (Android 7.0), Oreo (Oreo, Android 8.0), Pie (Android 9.0) )wait.

In one sentence, Android does not belong to Google, but to the Open Handheld Device Alliance

Hongmeng is a future-oriented operating system that Huawei began planning in 2012. In the public consciousness in 2012, there was no concept of "Internet of Everything" at all, and they did not know what the Internet of Things was. However, Huawei knew it because Huawei began to develop 5G technology in 2009. With the development of 5G technology After further research, Huawei found that neither WINDOWS, iOS nor Google's Android could meet the needs of 5G technology in future applications, so it began to independently develop a microkernel-based full-scenario distributed operating system: Hongmeng OS.

Hongmeng OS is completely different from all existing operating systems. It is no longer limited to use on a certain device. It can be expanded as needed, and can achieve wider system security and meet the needs of the future Internet of Everything. all needs.

Now Huawei’s Hongmeng OS has begun to be applied to ecological products such as Honor smart screens, Huawei smart screens, Huawei routers, and Huawei wearable devices. Moreover, Hongmeng is also a completely open source operating system, and all software vendors and terminal equipment vendors can join this ecosystem.

Netizens all have this misunderstanding: the operating system is either used on computers or mobile phones. However, the times are changing, and our perceptions will also change accordingly. Not only Huawei, Now Google and Apple are building their own distributed operating systems to achieve the purpose of interconnecting everything.

I think it won’t be long before Hongmeng OS can be used on mobile phones. More information will be revealed at the Hongmeng 2.0 conference on September 11.

Let me look forward to it

Some of the above pictures and texts are from the video works of Xigua Video creator Hai Gang:

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