With the gradual expansion of Huawei HarmonyOS "circle of friends", the industry is looking forward to when Tencent's huge user base wechat can officially join this ecosystem. According to the news of Huawei consumer service hotline engineers quoted by Shell Finance, wechat is working closely with Huawei to carry out development adaptation and technical communication of native HarmonyOS. And Tencent intelligence customer service also confirmed this trend, the outside world is generally believed that the addition of wechat will make Hongmeng and Android, iOS form a three-pillar situation.
According to insiders close to Tencent, the company has been in active communication with Huawei. In addition to Tencent video, Tencent News, QQ Browser and other products that have appeared at the Huawei Developer Conference, more Tencent services such as Sogou input method, Tencent Stock selection, QQ Music, etc., are also working hard to adapt HarmonyOS. Tencent said it wanted to ensure a smooth, secure and stable transition to the new system.
Regarding when wechat, Tencent's flagship product, can access HarmonyOS, Tencent customer service intelligent Assistant gave a clear response: "wechat is working with Huawei on the development of native Hongmeng operating system adaptation and technical communication work, due to the difference in product volume and function, the adaptation cycle and progress of different products will be different."
According to industry analysts, due to wechat's huge user base and complex functional system, the workload of adapting HarmonyOS is almost equivalent to re-developing an application. In addition, HarmonyOS is still in its infancy, and in order to ensure the stability of the application, wechat needs to set up a Hongmond development team with the same size as the iOS and Android development teams, which requires at least 30% to 50% more developers and resources.
In order to attract wechat to join the Hongmeng ecosystem, Huawei recently reached an important agreement with Tencent. According to Bloomberg, Huawei will not charge Tencent any fees for in-app transactions in exchange for Tencent's ongoing maintenance and updating of the app. The move is seen as a positive signal from Huawei to attract wechat.
At the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC 2024), Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei Terminal BG, said that Hongmeng native applications have entered a full sprint stage, the TOP 5,000 applications have all been started, meeting the user's use time of 99.9%, more than 1,500 applications have been completed, covering 18 fields. This achievement highlights the rapid growth of HarmonyOS.
According to the latest data from Counterpoint Research, in the first quarter of 2024, Huawei Hongmeng OS surpassed Apple iOS in the Chinese market for the first time, becoming the second largest operating system in China. At the same time, Tencent released financial results showing that the number of combined monthly active accounts of WeChat and wechat has reached nearly 1.4 billion, with an annual growth rate of 3%. This large user base will provide strong support for the development of HarmonyOS.
To sum up, the cooperation between Huawei and Tencent will further promote the development of HarmonyOS and bring users a richer and more convenient application experience. With the continuous expansion of the Hongmeng ecosystem, HarmonyOS is expected to form a more fierce competition with Android and iOS in the future.
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