Huawei: According to a report by research firm Canalys, Huawei’s HarmonyOS software has achieved a new shipping milestone. Since the platform’s launch in 2019, the Chinese tech business is said to have shipped more than 100 million smartphones using HarmonyOS.
By the end of 2024, the precise number is 103 million phones. In 2024 alone, Huawei sold 46 million HarmonyOS handhelds.
These figures imply that Huawei has a strong home footprint despite its limited global reach, especially in China, where HarmonyOS has grown to be an essential component of the business’s hardware ecosystem.
Every aspect of the Huawei ecosystem is powered by HarmonyOS
And it is not just smartphones that are growing. To date, Huawei has supplied 21 million HarmonyOS tablets, with 10.5 million of those sold in 2024, per Canalys.
After its initial release in 2019, the operating system was extensively used on consumer electronics by the middle of 2021. Since then, almost all of Huawei’s product line has adopted it as the default platform.
These days, HarmonyOS is available on wearables, audio devices, smart home appliances, and increasingly, PCs, in addition to phones and tablets. Speaking of which, Canalys reports that 3.2 million of Huawei’s 4.2 million personal computers supplied within China were laptops.
About the future, it has been rumored that Huawei is preparing for the upcoming significant HarmonyOS version. Version 6.0, which is expected later this year, is probably going to rely more on distributed architecture and machine learning.
At least in its domestic market, Canalys claims that these factors, together with Huawei’s command over hardware and software, are assisting the company in establishing HarmonyOS as a viable long-term substitute for global platforms.