As many of you know by now, Huawei announced its home-baked OS recently. HarmonyOS NEXT. Well, Huawei’s exec just announced that the company plans to hit 100,000 HarmonyOS NEXT apps in 2025.
HarmonyOS NEXT is Huawei’s Android-free OS. It launched in China a month ago, with over 15,000 available apps. Huawei plans to increase that number drastically, as it continues to work with companies.
Huawei plans to reach 100,000 HarmonyOS NEXT apps next year
This information comes from Eric Xu, the company’s Rotating Chairman. This goal is set to 6-12 months, so up to a year, which means by the very end of 2025 at the latest, basically.
Eric Xu also said that creating a native operating system isn’t exactly a big deal compared to the apps offered via that system. He emphasized the importance of having many apps of great quality to offer to its consumers.
He also said that Huawei is on a journey of self-sufficiency. That’s something we’ve heard before too, of course. Huawei didn’t really have much choice following the US ban. It had become self-sufficient to a large degree in order to succeed.
Eric Xu also said the following: “…it is also the sprint stage for the launch of HarmonyOS applications. Therefore it requires the support of developers. application owners, all sectors of society, and thousands of industries”.
We still don’t know when will HarmonyOS NEXT arrive to global markets
What many of you are probably wondering is… when will HarmonyOS NEXT arrive to global Huawei devices. Well, that’s not something we can answer. Many would probably say next year with the Huawei Pura 80 series, but… that’s not necessarily the case.
Huawei needs to prepare a ton of applications that global consumers want to use, and that’s not an easy feat, as it needs to get companies involved, to adapt their apps to HarmonyOS NEXT. It’s a brand new OS, so it’s not as easy as porting it to Android-based HarmonyOS.
We do hope to get more information from Huawei in the near future. The company definitely has a plan, but it’s keeping it under wraps for now.
