SHANGHAI: Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday said it would launch a long-awaited new operating system for smartphones next week, part of an all-out push into the software industry aimed at weathering US sanctions and taking on Google’s Android.
Huawei tipped the June 2 launch of its HarmonyOS platform in a short teaser on social media, just as an internal memo came to light in which company founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei outlined plans to go big in software.
The 76-year-old assured staff that “in the software domain, the US will have very little control over our future development, and we have much autonomy.”
Huawei’s plans are the latest signs of a radical transformation at the Shenzhen-based company, which is moving…
