Huawei`s Harmony OS is just Android in a hat and sunglasses
(Android Central)

Huawei is pulling an Amazon without acknowledging it. What you need to know Huawei`s HarmonyOS is a lot less novel than Huawei presents. A deep dive into the operating system revealed a largely unchanged version of Android 10. Huawei says phones running HarmonyOS will ship this year. As has been assumed, Huawei is moving away from Android this year, in a manner of speaking. The company has been rendered unable to use Google`s operating system in any meaningful manner ever since a 2019 U.S. ban prevented it from working with Google and loading the Google Play Store on its devices. Instead, the company throwing all its eggs into its HarmonyOS basket, a new operating system that Huawei has been playing up over the past year as its big Android replacement. How did Huawei manage to do this? Well, according to ArsTechnica`s Ron Amadeo who went poking around in the HarmonyOS emulator, they didn`t. Huawei`s HarmonyOS is just Huawei`s version of Android with any mention of `Android` in...