After investing tens of billions of dollars in three years, the Hongmeng ecosystem is going to move seriously

As we all know, although Hongmeng is a junior who only debuted in 2019, its development has attracted much attention so far.

At that time, as soon as Hongmeng appeared, it said that it would create a revolutionary product and create a new era of operating systems.

At that time, there were optimistic people who felt that Hongmeng would be the star of hope for the domestic operating system.

There are also those who are not optimistic, thinking that this is completely bragging, waiting to see Huawei being slapped in the face.

After all, Android has decades of accumulation and is an ecosystem built by developers all over the world.

How Microsoft's mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone, died, is a lesson from the past.

However, four years later, HarmonyOS has released its fourth generation, and Huawei's layout in terms of operating system has been fully revealed, and no one doubts the rhetoric of the time.

It can be said that the foundation of the Hongmeng ecosystem has been basically perfected.

Recently, the new HarmonyOS NEXT operating system has also been officially pushed in front of everyone, and it is no exaggeration to say that its arrival will mean that Huawei is realizing the cowhide that it boasted back then.

First of all, I would like to mention to those of you who don't know HarmonyOS NEXT why this "NEXT" is important.

As we all know, the current HarmonyOS is still not complete.

Huawei announced that HarmonyOS NEXT will be launched early next year, in order to build an ecological moat for HarmonyOS.

The much-anticipated HarmonyOS NEXT not only has the original HarmonyOS kernel, the native intelligence supported by large models, but also the subversive performance and power consumption brought by the Ark engine.

It can be seen that Huawei is fulfilling its promise step by step and building a new autonomous and controllable operating system.

Huawei is good at creating miracles, and is good at making the impossible possible, such as the Mate 60 Pro that can't be grabbed, such as the M7 that was sold out, and similarly, when HarmonyOS NEXT is released, it will be another miracle...

In order to achieve this miracle, Huawei has been releasing a large number of various big moves for more than 4 years.

You must know that if HarmonyOS wants to build an ecosystem, as a late-mover system, it must be inseparable from the strong support of partners and developers.

In a mature market, how to attract the attention of ecological players and pull them into the group?

Of course, the "big coin" bears the brunt, after all, developers also have to eat, and to develop an ecosystem that may not be successful, it must need financial support.

According to the incomplete statistics of the bad reviewer, Huawei almost has to propose a "10 billion subsidy" for developers every year, for example, this year Huawei has a "Hongfei Plan" to share resources such as technical support, ecological marketing, business cooperation, and developer support funds.

However, relying solely on the operation of the force and bricks cannot guarantee to impress the majority of developers and manufacturers.

After all, as the old saying goes, "I love to buy a thousand dollars".

If it is not technically possible to make millions of ecosystem participants happy to develop applications, the entire ecosystem may only be left with a bunch of "cheating" applications, and finally end up like Windows Phone.

Therefore, in order to get developers and application vendors to actively participate, HarmonyOS must do two things:

First, we should not only put forward higher requirements in terms of technical indicators, but also be future-oriented, create a user experience of intelligent connection of all things, and let everyone see the future of the entire system;

The second is to open up the link of developer development, so that developers will not feel inconvenient when developing HarmonyOS applications, and even simpler.

In order to do this, Huawei has been moving out various tools non-stop in recent years, and now it has formed a complete set of "HarmonyOS Development Kit".

Bad reviewers will give you a few examples...

In the past, traditional development was limited by the fragmentation of device ecology and form, and applications such as mobile phones, watches, tablets, and TVs had to be developed separately for different hardware and different systems.

For the same application, you have to make several copies.

However, under the HarmonyOS development ecosystem, developers can develop HarmonyOS applications in all scenarios through DevEco Studio, which can be regarded as a gradual realization of HarmonyOS's vision of "one-time development and multi-terminal deployment".

DevEco Studio is nothing more than a code-writing editor, but it has become the core of the entire development suite after integrating a series of development tools that Huawei has developed over the years.

For example, the ArkCompiler in the development kit.

It is said that the predecessor of this compiler was originally an internal project, because Huawei developers are exposed to a wide variety of embedded and mobile hardware on a daily basis, and these proprietary hardware often require specially adapted compilers.

In more than 20 years of software development, they have been annoyed by the huge and chaotic compilation tools.

To this end, Huawei has built a multi-language and multi-platform compiler, which can realize hybrid compilation in multiple languages, and unify a bunch of compilation tools under the framework of the "Ark Compiler", which is greatly convenient for developers.

This operation is a bit like a "convenient service center", which puts all the original scattered doors, which can only be bypassed by "insiders", into a one-stop solution.

In addition to the Ark compiler, a very handy testing tool is included in the development kit - DevEco Testing.

Traditional testing often requires developers to purchase various hardware devices and test the compatibility of their applications on each device.

Not only is the process cumbersome, but it also requires a lot of investment in real equipment.

A penny is hard to beat a hero, not to mention that Huawei's own models alone are a few hundred, and it will really cost you to buy them one by one.

However, Huawei uses DevEco Testing to provide remote real machines and simulators for HarmonyOS developers, which greatly reduces testing costs.

Developers can remotely test their programs on various models of mobile phones and tablets as long as they log in to the DevEco Service platform.

At the same time, the entire testing process is highly integrated with DevEco Studio, reducing the hassle of developers repeatedly installing applications, running tests, and extracting logs on a large number of devices.

Therefore, in the opinion of the bad reviewer, DevEco Studio is like an all-round one-stop service platform for HarmonyOS development, which allows developers to enjoy a smooth development experience from one stop to multiple platforms.

In addition to the convenience of developers, Hongmeng has not forgotten merchants and platform service providers.

Someone develops and someone pays for it in order to make the whole system play.

For them, there's a new way to reach users: "meta-services".

HarmonyOS presents these minimized services directly on the desktop in the form of cards.

Compared with traditional applications, the form factor of the card is easier to work with devices of different sizes and sizes, and it can reach users more directly.

For example, after the launch of the meta-service card, the popular electronic wooden fish application "Light Wooden Fish", the cumulative number of users has reached 10 million, and the user retention rate has increased by 20%.

The bad reviewer has seen a news before, saying that after Sina Finance accessed the meta service, the number of active users increased sixfold in half a year.

As we introduced at this year's Huawei Developer Conference, the ambition of meta-services is not only to make software more easily seen by users, but also to make services more easily understood by large models like language with the blessing of AI.

The meta-service card that users can read and interact with without opening the APP can be said to be "far ahead".

In addition to throwing money to bring in developers and using technology to keep participants, HarmonyOS has also made great efforts to reach out to more developers and provide a communication platform for all those who want to know about HarmonyOS.

In the past two years, Huawei has set up a special agenda for the developer conference to introduce the improvements and next steps of HarmonyOS.

At the same time, in the small venue of the technical forum outside the conference hall, Hongmeng is the undisputed protagonist.

In addition to the annual developer conference, Huawei also holds a variety of developer activities online, offline, or directly on campus.

The HarmonyOS Innovation Camp, HUAWEI Developer Day, Huawei Campus Developer Program, and many more, seem to have covered every corner of the Internet-related industries...

Beyond the expectations of the bad reviewers, more than 1.7 million people have participated in the course learning and offline activities of HarmonyOS Academy this year, which is enough to see everyone's enthusiasm and expectations for HarmonyOS.

Among these people who are the first to embrace Hongmeng, a super application belonging to Hongmeng may be incubated.

A few days ago, the Hongmeng Academy held in Shanghai trained Hongmeng's teachers

For an operating system, user support may be the second focus in addition to ecosystem building.

In this aspect in China, Hongmeng can be said to have done an unprecedented job.

Back when HarmonyOS 2.0 debuted, many old Huawei users said that HarmonyOS 2.0 made their old phones smoother.

On HarmonyOS 3.0, the fully integrated "HyperTerminal" has been praised for its seamless flow of applications and workflows.

Since the release of HarmonyOS 4, more than 60 million users have upgraded HarmonyOS in just over a month, making it the fastest version of HarmonyOS in history.

Now, the number of HarmonyOS ecological devices has exceeded 700 million, which is definitely one of the best numbers in domestic operating systems.

Coupled with HarmonyOS's perfect developer support and friendliness to ecological partners, it can be said that the HarmonyOS ecosystem has stepped past the first peak.

Now, HarmonyOS NEXT is taking on the challenge of creating an operating system ecosystem from scratch for the general public.

This is something that has hardly been challenged by domestic operating systems.

However, HarmonyOS has been preparing for this challenge for four years.

Huawei has given developers easy-to-use tools, software manufacturers the functions they need, and users with convenient and intelligent services, and the Mate 60 series equipped with a new chip has also swept the country, along with Huawei's hardware in all scenarios.

Recently, leading companies such as CCTV and Air China have joined in and taken the lead in launching the development of HarmonyOS native applications. The bad reviewer really wants to know, who will be the next partner to join the challenge?

The time and place are favorable, Hongmeng is just waiting to ride the wind.