Chinanews client, Dongguan, September 12 (Reporter Wu Tao) "No one can extinguish the sky full of stars. Every developer is a spark that Huawei wants to gather."

　　On the eve of the US’s “cutting off the supply” of Huawei chips, Huawei launched a breakthrough war, released Hongmeng 2.0, expounded the Huawei ecology, and made it clear that it will fully support mobile phones equipped with Hongmeng systems next year.

The scene of the Huawei Developer Conference.

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Chip problem, crisis and opportunity coexist

　　The "Huawei Developer Conference 2020" held from September 10th to 12th has a high degree of attention, which can be described as the highest in history.

Because the day is very special-September 15 is the day when the United States began to implement a complete "cut off" of Huawei chips.

　　"The technology involved in the chip issue is very complicated. Huawei must have difficulties in this regard, no doubt." Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei's consumer business software department, said in an interview during the conference.

　　"From the point of view of the chip issue, all industries in China should be sober? Although there are so many Fortune 500 companies in China, although they are lush and leafy, they are very dangerous. They may wither in an instant, because without roots, they are scattered." 

　　"Take software as an example. Chinese software developers are especially like stevedores. Software kernels? Databases? File systems? Nothing. There is no production line when assembling." Wang Chenglu said, "It turns out that everyone is eager to make money, go public, cash out, Then financial freedom, do nothing. The more stories like this, the sadder."

　　"I prefer to see the positive side, because the chip issue has given the company reflection. No choice is the best choice. Restrictions instead give everyone a very good opportunity. Crisis and opportunities coexist." Wang Chenglu said.

　　The most direct manifestation of the "discontinued supply" may be that Huawei's mobile phones have no "core" available. Therefore, many analysts believe that after the "discontinued supply" of chips, Huawei's mobile phone shipments may decline severely next year.

　　In response, Wang Chenglu responded, "I don't know if it will decline next year, at least not yet. It has maintained a very fast growth. The difficulties we are facing are of course very challenging, but I believe we can find a solution."

　　According to Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, even under sanctions, in the first half of 2020, global shipments of Huawei's consumer business mobile phones reached 105 million; consumer business revenue reached 255.8 billion yuan.

“In the most recent quarter, Huawei’s mobile phones have achieved the number one position in both the global and domestic markets. The domestic market share exceeds 51%, but it has been out of stock.

　　The good news is, “After the United States announced sanctions last year, the domestic production rate of Huawei’s first flagship mobile phone device was less than 30%. The P40 flagship phone released this year has a domestic production rate of over 86%.” Wang Chenglu said.

Huawei released Hongmeng 2.0, indicating that it will support mobile phones with Hongmeng next year.

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Hongmeng develops and strives for opportunities

　　For hardware chips to develop, software ecology is equally important. This will become the highlight of the 2020 Huawei Developers Conference.

　　The big ecology is Hongmeng.

　　"To start the ecology first, the Hongmeng system has invested hundreds of millions of yuan, and the experience has been improving. Now it can reach the level of 70%-80% of Android, but it is improving every day, every week, and every month." Yu Chengdong said a few days ago. .

　　Huawei disclosed Hongmeng's open source roadmap at the developer conference.

Wang Chenglu said that Huawei's mobile phones, wearable devices, and tablets will soon use the Hongmeng system, and will also be open to third-party devices. "By October 2021, Hongmeng will open source all devices above 4GB."

　　Regarding the question of "when will Harmony be used on mobile phones" that consumers are most concerned about, Huawei also gave a timetable: "Next year, we will fully support mobile phones equipped with Harmony systems."

　　All aspects are preparing for Harmony. Huawei’s new mobile phone system EMUI 11 has an "Easter Egg" buried in it-devices equipped with Harmony 2.0 can interact with EMUI 11, allowing users to "early taste" the Harmony ecological experience.

Honor also announced that the follow-up Honor 30 and V30 series can be upgraded to the Hongmeng system, and more models are still being added.

　　"On the day Hongmeng was born, it was not on the same track as Android. We have very strong confidence in Hongmeng. Android may not be able to compete with Hongmeng." Wang Chenglu said in an interview that Hongmeng's distributed capabilities, Android may be connected Never thought of it.

　　On August 9, 2019, when the Huawei Hongmeng system was officially unveiled, Huawei introduced at that time, "The biggest feature of Hongmeng is the full-scene distributed OS based on the microkernel."

　　"Now in the entire mobile system, Apple and Google are the duopoly. They are the rule makers. China does not have its own system, and developers will never be able to communicate with them on an equal footing." Wang Yanmin, President of Global Ecological Development Department of Huawei Consumer Business Say.

　　In an interview with Chinanews.com, Wang Yanmin said that opportunities are always obtained in exchange for hard work. It is time for a challenger to build a new ecology that can be more fair, open, safe and more trustworthy by consumers. This is also our goal.

　　"In the Apple ecosystem, 30% of your revenue from IAP in-app purchases will be taken away, and advertising commissions will also be collected. We give developers more choices." Wang Yanmin said.

Wang Chenglu and other Huawei executives were interviewed by the media.

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HMS goes first

　　EMUI 11 allows users to "early adopt" Hongmeng. It is a bit like a soldier and a horse. Food and grass go first. First, let users understand and cultivate usage habits to facilitate entry into Hongmeng. When users are not so "unfamiliar".

　　In fact, before Hongmeng was fully implemented, Huawei HMS was already in rapid development, and the targets were Android’s GMS and Apple’s basic iOS applications.

　　In 2016, Huawei's mobile core service HMS Core 2.0 was released and has now been updated to HMS Core 5.0.

　　HMS refers to Huawei Mobile Services, and GMS refers to Google’s "Family Bucket" services including Google Maps, Mail, and Search.

　　Starting from May 2019, Google only allows Huawei phones to use Android open source code, not Google GMS services.

Huawei must make HMS become powerful quickly, otherwise a mobile phone without application services will have a high configuration.

　　The latest data shows that HMS currently has 1.8 million developers worldwide, the number of integrated HMS applications exceeds 96,000, more than 60,000 overseas applications are listed on the Huawei App Gallery, and the top 3,000 applications have exceeded 80% is available in the Huawei application market.

　　"Currently, HMS's overseas service capabilities are more geared towards the App level." Wang Yanmin said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com, "Considering the current environment, HMS's early stage is mainly to meet consumer daily basic application needs and continue to enhance competitiveness."

　　Zhang Pingan, President of Huawei Cloud Services, also said that Huawei mobile phones are "basically usable" without GMS.

　　HMS goes first. Once Hongmeng is launched overseas, can apps that use HMS service run the Hongmeng system without any modification?

Wang Chenglu gave an accurate answer for the first time, "Yes."

　　"Huawei has contributed a lot of ideas to Android, but Android itself has very strict thinking. It used to be very painful for Huawei and its cooperation. A small innovation has been communicated for a year, and the innovation has been tied up." Wang Chenglu said, breaking Android cooperation, benefit Outweigh the disadvantages.

After the release of Hongmeng 2.0, a double rainbow appeared in the sky outside the conference site.

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Ecological construction, facing difficulties

　　HMS is Huawei's small ecology, Hongmeng is the big ecology, but it is not easy to build an ecology.

　　“There are two difficult things in the world, one is building an atomic bomb, the other is building an ecology, and compared with the former, the latter is more difficult because the first-mover advantage of ecological construction is very large.” During the Huawei Developer Conference "Lake Dialogue", said Wang Huiwen, founder and senior vice president of Meituan Dianping.

　　"This requires everyone's efforts and help," Huawei executives have repeatedly emphasized.

According to Yu Chengdong, it is necessary to gather sparks.

　　"All the forces in China should unite so that the ecology can flourish. Huawei has taken a crucial step and hopes to build confidence for industry partners." Wang Chenglu said.

　　Zhang Ping’an said, “To be honest, in this battle, from the beginning, no one is sure that they can win. Because so many companies want to build an ecosystem, they all come back in despair. Can Huawei be able to do it in ecology? My heart is actually playing drums."

　　In Wang Huiwen's view, "the difficulty of ecological construction is that all the upstream and downstream links must be mobilized, and in the process, all parties have positive commercial interests."

　　Wang Chenglu also said, "What is the most difficult thing to do in ecology? It must be the distribution of benefits. When doing ecology, we must have determination and ambition, and it will not last for a long time without mutual benefit.

　　"Ecology is a very complex system engineering. The key stakeholders in it include consumers, developers, third-party service providers, and platforms. Each stakeholder embodies different values. It is difficult to use a sentence Explain in words." Wang Yanmin said.

　　However, it is worth noting that reporters from China News Network visited the exhibition during the Huawei Developer Conference and found that many manufacturers have joined the Hongmeng "big family", including BYD already using Huawei HiCar.

　　It is understood that Midea, Joyoung and Boss Electric will soon release home appliances equipped with the Hongmeng system.

These home appliances will be able to collaborate with multiple devices. For example, mobile phones can push the user's body information collected by wearable devices to the cooking machine, cooking opportunities to recommend targeted recipes, and so on.

　　"Ecology is one or two orders of magnitude more difficult than technology. Huawei gives everyone a choice. You are welcome to try. Only by concentrating everyone's efforts can it be possible. I have confidence in this." Wang Chenglu pointed out.

　　Coincidentally, after the release of Hongmeng 2.0, a double rainbow appeared in the sky outside the venue. Many people said, "Huawei sees a rainbow after the rain." (End)