People are optimistic about having a third smartphone OS on the market – last week’s poll shows that 2 in 3 voters think that Huawei’s new HarmonyOS looks promising. The most common criticism we heard was that HarmonyOS (at least on smartphones and tablets) is a fork of Android. An Android fork isn’t glamorous, but it works – FireOS, Amazon’s Android fork, outlived Windows Phone. Will it stick close to Android or start to diverge HarmonyOS into its own thing? For that approach to succeed, however, it will need a solid user base and an Android fork makes for an easy start.

Source: The Nation June 13, 2021 03:00 UTC