I'm not sure that matters. And it's not like US hasn't done the same in many cases too. I had an American friend who legit claimed US invented pizza

Your original comment essentially read like a bad reddit style anti-china argument. Like, "these dumb chinese people would have never figured out to do this if the US didn't force them to! No need to give those asians any credit!"

It is now obvious you wrote it from the perspective of "duh, why is anyone in the west acting surprised? They literally have no other option besides dying"

I don't see how you navigate life without understanding that the real world is far more complex than that.

owww, poor companies are getting ips stolen from them. go help your corporate overlords!

we need something open, instead of moving from being dominated by one country to being dominated by another country

That's the spirit

Love me some freedom!

Dude is just your average brainwashed white Western spitting fabricated consent dubbed as "common sense"

Only some or them are doing genocide and bombing children tho

Don't be a disingenuous prick

good job huawei.

Isn't HarmonyOS closed? I'd rather not jump from a bad ship to a worse one

to a worse one

This seems to be quite the leap. Elaborate?

Closed = very bad

Android is open source, so you can at least make your fork and find a way to load it on phones that support bootloader unlocking, while harmony is closed so you cannot do that which is objectively worse

That's reasonable thank you. I suppose I always took androids open source nature to be largely "theoretical"(?) given googles controlling stake and simply the nature of the mobile market where effectively every android device is running googles proprietary version. HarmonyOS is in reality in the same boat given it has OpenHarmony in parallel to HarmonyOS in the same way AOSP is parallel to Android.

It is like Android, mixed source. Android is based on the open source AOSP project. HarmonyOS is based on the open source OpenHarmony project. Kaihong has released laptops that uses its own OpenHarmony distribution.

OpenHarmony does exist of which Huawei's HarmonyOS is but one distribution.

Oh i see, that's nice then

Thanks

I'm apparently 2 levels removed from whatever that meme is; no clue who that is for one

As others have said harmony is setup exactly the same as android, open source OS on which a closed source customized flavor is built. It's exactly as bad or not bad as android is in this regard. The flavor being in control of a Chinese corporation instead of an American one is another issue.

I think every international company and government is corrupt.

Unlike my domestic companies and government, whose motives are pure and only serve the best interests of the people.