Huawei launches its own operating system called HarmonyOS

After Huawei found itself on the "entity list," which banned it from buying products and components (including licensing Google's Android) from U.S. companies, the Chinese giant teased its own smartphone operating system. 

Now, that OS has officially been launched as HarmonyOS — but it's not exactly focused on smartphones. 

Revealed at the Huawei Developer Conference in Dongguan, China, by the company CEO Richard Yu, HarmonyOS is a "distributed OS" that lets developers develop their apps once, then "flexibly deploy them across a range of different devices."

This is in contrast to Android and Apple's iOS, which are separate (though partially compatible) with the companies' other platforms.  Read more...