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by throwaway4good 1847 days ago
A lot of this "stuff" comes from the Ars Technica article:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-h...

Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development

While it is true that Huawei did officially respond to the Ars Technica article, one of their developers did a detailed walkthru of the article trying settle some of the misunderstandings.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12X4y1N7bd

It is in English but has a Chinese title which google hilariously translates into:

See the BBC again? The technology media from the West can't avoid the vulgarity. Seeing them embarrassing and black Hongmeng can't stand it, Brother Zhao refuted it.

Enjoy.
2 comments
yorwba 1847 days ago
I actually watched the full video (at 1× speed, because Bilibili has mislabeled the app download button as 倍速.) He has some criticisms of the Ars Technica article that I agree with. However, those aren't really relevant to the current thread.

He confirms that the developer beta reviewed in the article is running Linux on ARM with all pieces of Android present, modulo Google Mobile Services replaced by Huawei Mobile Services. He then criticizes the article for concluding that it's just Android without trying out any HarmonyOS-specific features, but doesn't demonstrate them himself. To borrow his analogy, if Android is English and HarmonyOS is Chinese, why does he speak English the whole time? (And why so slowly?)

The video would've been much better if he'd booted up an emulator himself to show what was missing from the Ars Technica article.

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FooBarWidget 1847 days ago
He did make references to API documentation on how to transfer a window from one device to another. It's too bad he didn't demonstrate it. I would love to see a follow up demonstration.

EDIT: apparently there is a demonstration video here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368995

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throwaway4good 1847 days ago
The guy's channel is all technical videos on HarmonyOS on phones and iot-devices:

https://space.bilibili.com/455592866

Unfortunately, the video I linked to appears to be the only one in English.

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ladyanita22 1847 days ago
He didn't demonstrate it because there was nothing to show. Harmony is Android.
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FooBarWidget 1847 days ago
Thank you for linking to the response video. I was wondering what was up with the Ars Technica review. This response has cleared some things up.
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