{"id":193085,"date":"2024-07-17T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/huaweis-long-awaited-windows-challenger-will-likely-come-to-pcs-this-year-harmonyos-next-makes-the-transition-from-phones-to-desktops-and-laptops"},"modified":"2024-07-17T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:22:38","slug":"huaweis-long-awaited-windows-challenger-will-likely-come-to-pcs-this-year-harmonyos-next-makes-the-transition-from-phones-to-desktops-and-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/huaweis-long-awaited-windows-challenger-will-likely-come-to-pcs-this-year-harmonyos-next-makes-the-transition-from-phones-to-desktops-and-laptops","title":{"rendered":"Huawei\u2019s long-awaited Windows challenger will likely come to PCs this year \u2014 HarmonyOS Next makes the transition from phones to desktops and laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huaweis-long-awaited-windows-challenger-will-likely-come-to-pcs-this-year-harmonyos-next-makes-the-transition-from-phones-to-desktops-and-laptops2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HarmonyOS Next, on the other hand, is an Android-free variant of HarmonyOS. The new operating system doesn\u2019t use AOSP libraries, can\u2019t run.apk files, and is a significant step towards complete independence from US-based software for the vendor. HarmonyOS Next is not currently shipping with Huawei products but is available as a developer sandbox to develop and test apps for native HarmonyOS use. HarmonyOS Next hasn\u2019t yet arrived on PC, but recent leaks suggest it soon will, paving the way for a new Chinese homegrown desktop OS.<\/p>\n<p>Images of HarmonyOS Next for PC suggest an operating system taking design cues from MacOS. The system has a familiar status bar and dock bar combo on the top and bottom. The fullscreen\/minimize\/close buttons live on the right-hand side of programs, mirroring MacOS\u2019s traffic light system.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei\u2019s recent strategy for HarmonyOS has publicly been phones-first. With HarmonyOS being open-source, much like Android, widespread adoption across the Chinese market and beyond outside of Huawei phones is possible and a big goal for Huawei. HarmonyOS already makes up 16% of the Chinese phone market, which is expected to grow in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HarmonyOS Next, on the other hand, is an Android-free variant of HarmonyOS. The new operating system doesn\u2019t use AOSP libraries, can\u2019t run.apk files, and is a significant step towards complete independence from US-based software for the vendor. HarmonyOS Next is not currently shipping with Huawei products but is available as a developer sandbox to develop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}