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Huawei may have a backup OS in case it has to drop Android
It'd be hard to blame Huawei executives if they're feeling very nervous lately. The US has created havoc for ZTE by renewing an export ban over trade violations, potentially depriving it of its Android license and leaving it without a platform. How would Huawei avoid a similar fate? Simple: it would use its own operating system instead. South China Morning Post sources have claimed that Huawei has been developing its own mobile operating system (there are reportedly tablet and PC equivalents) ever since it and ZTE faced an American investigation in 2012. It's considered an investment for "worst-case scenarios," the insiders said.
The company hasn't released this OS because it isn't up to Android's level of quality and app support, the sources added.
Huawei hasn't confirmed or denied the software's existence, saying only that it "has no plans" to launch an in-house OS in the "foreseeable future" -- if there is one, there's no rush to use it. There was a purported meeting leak in 2012 that referenced a new platform.
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(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:28PM (1 child)
You really have to wonder why big organizations come up with long names without ensuring their likely abbreviations don't have bad or unintended connotations... *especially* in the "native language" of the organization.
Microsoft once released the Critical Update Notification Tool... I mean, seriously?
I'm also thinking that time the then-newly merged right-wing party in Canada called themselves the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance. They didn't have the brains to think ahead and realize "party" would inevitably be tacked on the end, even if not part of the official name, so of course they became known as CRAP even after they quickly changed the official name.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:33PM
Well they had to release her. Continuing to keep her chained in the basement wasn't going to end well.
"so of course they became known as CRAP even after they quickly changed the official name."
Wouldn't that be CCRAP though? C-CRAP? CANADIAN CRAP.
I can't imagine why they weren't a big hit.
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