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背景:
本月,华为即将发布新款智能手机,其搭载的HarmonyOS NEXT操作系统备受瞩目。这款操作系统意义非凡,标志着华为与西方技术的决裂,有望成为继安卓和iOS之后的全球第三大移动操作系统。中国政府一直致力于实现各领域技术的自给自足,华为也积极投入其中,此前已在半导体领域取得进展,此次HarmonyOS NEXT更是其努力的关键一步。该系统虽上月才推出且仅用于测试,但随着Mate 70发布有望广泛应用。然而,华为面临诸多挑战,如吸引开发者以丰富应用生态,说服其他中国智能手机厂商采用等。但无论如何,华为此举都将对全球智能手机市场格局产生深远影响,也将引起西方科技巨头的关注,同时助力中国减少对外国技术的依赖。
正文:
Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android
When Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, releases its latest smartphone this month, techies will strip it down to figure out how it works. The semiconductors powering the Mate 70, as the device is called, will reveal how much progress China has made in building its own chips and breaking its reliance on foreign technology. But the software in the phone may prove more important than the hardware. Huawei is expected to install HarmonyOS NEXT, its new homemade operating system, on the devices. This would be China’s first clean break with the Western-backed systems on which it and the rest of the world rely.
China’s government wants the country to become technologically self-sufficient in everything from fertiliser and passenger jets to chips and payments networks. It views Western chokeholds on critical technologies as national-security risks which could prove especially dangerous to China in a conflict. Huawei’s efforts to support Chinese self-sufficiency have lately focused on semiconductors. But the country is still overwhelmingly reliant on American mobile operating systems. Android, owned by Google, and iOS, Apple’s system, power about 98% of smartphones globally, including almost all of those in China.
Huawei’s new system will add a third contender. It was launched last month, and is only available for testing, but is expected to become more widespread with the Mate 70’s release. The current, widely used version of Huawei’s system still relies on free code from Android and software from Linux, a global open-source project. The new version is expected to throw out those foreign elements and replace them with all-native components.
标题:经济学人 | 华为推出全新国产软件,挑战苹果与安卓
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