please don’t read this post/reply if you are not “squizzler”, it is a waste of time, except if you really want to waste your time.
Dear squizzler, check out this link
The L2 branch of OpenHarmony 2.0 (which can run hongmeng apps), has like zero android code according to the link above.
Of course, everybody expects to be able to run android apps on harmony, therefore some kind of compatibility layer needs to be present.
If Ubuntu is coming preinstalled with wine you are also not going to scream that it is a copy.
Android did build on top of linux kernel, and I guess Apple used BSD etc… The only one that did write their own kernel seems to be huawei. And it’s a microkernel, so you can not say in any way that it is a copy of android, which is not a microkernel. [Besides that it has better benchmark performance on the same devices, and a copy is not going to become faster like magic]
If you do check the huawei event of 2nd june, you will notice, that it seems to be a lot more powerful with a lot of features.
I can tell you how horrible android is working on smart watches, and I am going to get a huawei watch 3 as soon as possible.
There are like nearly no domains where google is reaching out to be as good at possible. They are interested to get people on board by making the service free/cheap and harming the competition, so that the competition is having less clients/money, and has to stop improving their service.
You can search how the ceo of mozzila or important firefox developers are describing how google fooled them and sabotaged firefox [such that firefox would load for example youtube slower]…
Google is trying to stop others from becoming good/dominant in a certain domain, they are not like amazon striving for the best possible service/product.
[Or maybe they do but are just incompetent: If you want I can show you my email exchange with google support: I was fighting to get an invoice for paying 25 dollar/euro [for google developer account, which i made just to see how would be process of submitting apps on google play] for the accountant to have the accounting of the company correct. From all the services and products I was ever buying from around the word (usa, europe, etc), google was the only one that could not give me a bill/invoce, or any kind of paper (with my contact data) to show for what the money was paid with the credit card. I was fighting for about 2 weeks, tens of emails/contacts with costumer support… etc… nothing helped… one customer support send me from one place to the other and the other send me back to the first. They could not agree who was responsible for making a bill/invoice. I felt like talking to retards, explaining everything like to a child to be sure that it was understandable. Their live support, was technically so badly done, it felt like using a services from 20 years ago. The big software company is not able to develop a decent live support and being able to pass the problem of the client automatically to the other department? I had to contact all the other departments by myself and explaining everything again and again… then I was sent back… and I had to start again explaining the whole problem again… I made a tone of such round trips just to see how much effort it would take to solve this absolute minor and trivial problem. After two weeks of trying I gave up. ] Now compare this to the customer support of revolut.com , I have there a business account, everything is handled and solved so fast, the in-app live support is super great.
To return back to the subject:
yes, harmonyOS will contain android, which is ok to be like that, and everybody was expecting it, because everybody wants to be able to run android apps if needed.
I would not be surprised to see all the android code being removed… like in 10 years.
Google is working on fuchsia since such a long time… if they really don’t have more code on private repositories, then they are really ridiculous [taking in account that they are reusing anyway a lot of code from android/linux].
When I saw the headlines that android 12 was released… I even didn’t bother to continue reading the article, just skipped the headline [In the past I was trilled watching their google event].
If google has something of real value, expect it to be on their private repository and not open source.
Why didn’t huawei build on open source version of android?
Why didn’t huawei fork fuchsia since it is also a microkernel OS?
Why doesn’t OpenAI use TensorFlow?
The licenses are all very permissive and good to be forked.