Thus, Google can stop being the leading operating system on mobile phones

The entire world is seeing how the decisions made in the White House are shaking the values ​​markets of all countries, and Spain does not stay out. Trump administration decisions with tariffs seem random, but They are not the only ones that could take.

Until a few weeks ago it seems that the United States had an open war against China, on the economic leveland that could climb much faster than it seems. Now it seems that there is a slight decrease in pressure, but that does not guarantee anything. Rapid and erratic changes generate uncertainty, and that does not like companies or markets. In the telecommunications sector this could be carried out in front of the last decades of stability in the sector, especially in mobile telephony.

Since Apple will present the iPhone and Google It will react with a last minute change with Android to resemble it more to the iOS system and less that of Blackberry, These two companies have distributed the market of mobile operating systems. The previous bets, such as Symbian, paled, and the posterior ones, like Windows Phone, never came to take enough traction.

18 stable years

This caused, although proposals arose in these almost two decades, we have seen how Google and Apple have been able to move forward and consolidate without rivals, fighting with each other, but not in a stark way. Apple had its own operating system that was not going to license and Google was not going to enter the hardware sector through the big door, especially not to anger members like Samsung.

This made both the Korean giant and The rest of Chinese manufacturers will opt for Androidfor avoiding the development of its own software platform and, above all, having to win the favor of developers, which is the most complicated. Throughout this time each brand has been trying to differentiate itself from the others, but always starting from the Android base.

But this came to an end in the case of Huawei because of the veto that the United States put with the first Trump administration. According to the US government, the case of Huawei was particular for its alleged ties with the Chinese government, and that made it forbidden to use United States technologies. In fact, those prohibitions have been recently increased and now Huawei cannot Sell ​​computers with Windows.

Huawei Vira

This was a very strong blow to Huawei, who was already fighting for being the first in sales in markets such as Spain, where he rivaled you with Samsung, at any level. But without Google apps I could not do it, at least not in the same way. It is currently possible to use Mountain View company apps in a simple way, but it has not managed to regain users’ confidence.

So, Huawei decided that he was not going to make the same mistake again and began to develop Harmony Osan own operating system that was originally based on Android but that In his last versions he has completely independent. This means that it is possibly the third most used mobile operating system in the world given its client base in China.

Huawei os Next is a long -term project, in which Huawei does not want to depend on Google, but to replicate its model. That implies that it has created an open source system that any company can use and implement as its own, which means in saving development and compatibility costs with applications.

Xiaomi, Oppo, alive …

If the United States continued to increase the pressure on China, it would not be strange for it to do it too on companies that do not operate directly on US soil Simply to make the Chinese government to sit down to negotiate. Weird things have seen in recent weeks. And the problem is that the Chinese government may be considering that scenario and encouraging its companies to depend less on foreign technologies.

If negotiation is not an option for the administration of Xi Jinping in the terms that the United States want, that could imply that marks such as Xiaomi and Oppo, among others, had to leave Android aside. This would be catastrophic outside of Chinese bordersbut within your country the use of Google apps and services are prohibited, so there would be no great change.

Openharmony

If that happened it would be a golden opportunity for Openharmony, the open source version created by Huawei and currently developed in collaboration with other companiesas Google does with Android AOSP. If all the great Chinese players join to use the same operating system, it would be a matter of time to have a critical mass powerful enough to make the jump out of China. In fact, Xiaomi already has An app developed for this operating system.

This does not mean that they enter the United States, but in Southeast Asia, perhaps South Korea and Japan (with which it is now closing agreements) and, of course, in Africa, Latin America and Europe. Creating an ecosystem like this would be a brutal blow for Android, that would remain mostly in brands such as Samsung, Google and maybe Nothing and other minor firms.

The electric car

This would also be a huge change in another sector that is booming, that of the electric car. Currently software development is one of the biggest problems facing Western brandswith the exception of Tesla. Google has a good option on Android Automotive, but in China they are not in the same position.

The software of many of its brands is up to not, with proposals such as that of the own Huawei, who has agreements with various manufacturers to provide his autonomous driving, entertainment and others to their vehicles. And there also runs Harmonyos.

For now there is nothing that makes us think that Donald Trump is going to undertake economic attacks against China that affect electronics, but given the speed at which the events and intensity of the climbing occur, It is not something that can be ruled out, much less. China knows and surely already studying these scenarios, since The Asian government is characterized by looking at decades seen, not at months seen.