Huawei’s HarmonyOS a ‘rip-off’ of Google Android

New Delhi: Fed up with the US restrictions, Huawei has announced to build its own operating system (OS) called HarmonyOS to end the dependency on market leader Google’s Android. The company is all set to bring smartphones with the indigenously-built OS this year but the first look of HarmonyOS has been termed as an “Android fork”.

A report in Ars Technica that got access to HarmonyOS in Beta has found no discernible difference between the “all-new” OS and Android, calling the OS development as “fake it till you make it”.

“The way Huawei describes the OS to the press and in developer documents doesn’t seem to have much to do with what the company is actually shipping,” the report claimed.