HarmonyOS captures the Chinese market: Huawei actively popularises gadgets with its own software
Chinese giant Huawei is investing heavily in the development and popularisation of its own operating system HarmonyOS, which debuted in 2021 on mobile devices as a replacement for Android, and has been China's alternative to Windows: Huawei unveils PC version of HarmonyOS since early 2025.
A new study by analyst agency Canalys has revealed that HarmonyOS has captured a significant portion of the Chinese gadget market in a short time.
Here's What We Know
Experts found out that by the end of 2024, Huawei has sold 103 million smartphones on HarmonyOS, of which 45 million are in 2024. The company has also sold around 21 million tablets with this OS, 50 per cent of which were also sold in 2024.
There is no data on sales of MateBook Pro and MateBook Fold laptops yet, but it is known that they are very popular in the Chinese market.
Importantly, Huawei has been able to build a self-sufficient and extensive digital ecosystem that offers deep integration between all Huawei devices, including smartphones, tablets and wearable electronics, as well as having the Celia voice assistant and a unified content management system between devices. And all of this is completely independent of Google, Microsoft or other foreign companies.
HarmonyOS supports more than 1,000 applications, of which 150 are adapted for PCs, and the company plans to increase this number to 2,000 by the end of 2025.
Many familiar applications (Microsoft Office, Adobe) are not yet available to users, but there is no doubt that Huawei will soon release a worthy replacement for them.
Source: Canalys
