Huawei claims its operating system can challenge Google, Apple

“Huawei is in a position to deliver an ecosystem that is on par with Google’s and Apple’s ecosystems,” said Eric Tan, Huawei’s head of consumer cloud services. “We have the confidence to be one of the top ecosystem developers in the world,” he said while speaking about Huawei Mobile Services and its related app store during ‘Global Analyst Summit’ in Shenzhen.

Huawei’s App Gallery reached 420 mn users in the first quarter of this year. It is now available in over 170 countries. “We must join up with our partners – developers – to provide the apps that consumers demand,” Tan said.

Huawei said there are now 1.4 mn developers registered to create apps for App Gallery. Over the last decade, the smartphone OS business has become a duopoly. Either you have Apples iPhones running on iOS or a device powered by Google’s Android.