HISTORY

ORIGIN

Repots surrounding an in-house operating system being developed by Huawei date back as
far as 2012.These reports intensified during the SINO-AMERICAN TRADE WAR, after the United
States Department of Commerce added Huawei to its Entity List in May 2019 under an indictment
that it knowingly exported goods, technology and services OF u.s-based companies from doing
business with Huawei without first obtaining licence from Government. Huawei executive Richard Yu
described an in-house platform as a “plan B” in case it is preventing from using Android on future
smartphone products due to the sanction.

Prior to its unveiling, it was originally speculated to be a mobile operating system that could replace
Android on future Huawei devices. Huawei executives told Reuters that the OS was under testing in
China, and could be ready “in months”, but by July 2019, some Huawei executives described the OS
as being an embedded operating system designed for IoT hardware, describing the pervious
statements for it to be a mobile operating system.

Some media outlet reported that this OS, “Hongmeng”, could be released in china either august or
September 2019, with a world wide release in the second quarter of 2020. On 24 th May 2019,
Huawei registered “Hongmeng” as a trademark in China. The name “Hongmeng” came from Chinese
mythology that symbolizes primordial chaos or the world before creation. The same day, Huawei
registered surrounding “Ark OS” and variants with the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
In July 2019, it was reported that Huawei had also registered trademark surrounding “Harmony” for
desktop and mobile operating system software, indicating either a different name or a component of
the OS.

RELEASE
ON 9TH August 2019, Huawei officially unveiled HarmonyOS