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If you live in the west and criticise your government, nothing happens. If you live in China and criticise your government, even in private, you can go missing or end up in a camp
Try telling that to all those people punished for protesting against Gaza genocide. Not to mention Julian Assange.
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> If you live outside of China and don't know Mandarin Not just that, China has super apps that integrate everything from payments, food delivery, taxi, social media... To single application. Integrating this app directly into OS as a launcher (or shell) kind of makes sense.
Are you sure those everything aren't just bunch of third party janky WebViews, only relevant because of private chat app account moat? ("third party" and "private" parts are relevant, IMO, otherwise Twitter superapp-ification had happened years ago)
My point is that 3td party apps do not make much sense in China. They are useless without support from super app
I wonder the cost to Microsoft if there is a rigorous political effort by the CCP to move all Chinese desktop consumption away from Windows and Office Suite to open source (local) alternatives.
I like Linux, but porting a country's software on linux is no trivial task.
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If you live in the west and criticise your government, nothing happens. If you live in China and criticise your government, even in private, you can go missing or end up in a camp
Try telling that to all those people punished for protesting against Gaza genocide. Not to mention Julian Assange.
I would be more interested in a OpenHarmony Desktop version. If it picks up on mainland and Asia in general it would be a proper 3rd desktop OS.
3rd desktop os? There are many more than 2 desktop oss already, am I misunderstanding you?
I think it is good that we have a non-Google, non-Apple OS for mobile phones out there though I am guessing that the surveillance state will be in full operation in Harmony OS as well.
The reason Huawei has a distinct non-Google Android flavour poisons the whole endeavour. Huawei is registered on the US Entity List. You can have the surveillance gulag of Google, or the surveillance gulag of the CCP. Pick your poison.
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The article explicitly cites it in the second last paragraph. It was a bit more than political pressure, though: Huawei was added to the entity list and it would be a crime for US companies or citizens to do business with them.
That’s clearly not the case though? A lot of Huawei gear is still installed and operating, as of today, in US telecom networks. Even the pentagon is contracting with many companies using Huawei gear.
There were specific orders to remove Huawei from the telecom network (but yeah they were not followed) in 2019.
I think it is good that we have a non-Google, non-Apple OS for mobile phones out there though I am guessing that the surveillance state will be in full operation in Harmony OS as well.
The reason Huawei has a distinct non-Google Android flavour poisons the whole endeavour. Huawei is registered on the US Entity List. You can have the surveillance gulag of Google, or the surveillance gulag of the CCP. Pick your poison.
Google, on the other hand, can have a massive influence on my day to day life.
Notably, this is a microkernel, multiserver operating system[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT
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That’s clearly not the case though? A lot of Huawei gear is still installed and operating, as of today, in US telecom networks. Even the pentagon is contracting with many companies using Huawei gear.
They’re not supposed to be running it! There were specific orders to remove Huawei from the telecom network (but yeah they were not followed) in 2019.
So the government didn't flip a switch and tell them to make it disappear. They expected it to be a staggered, eventual process.