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Friends who are familiar with the development history of the mobile Internet should feel particularly excited during the period from last year to the present. These days remind us of 2007-2009, when the global mobile industry witnessed the birth of iOS and Android and the rewriting of the interaction and business model of mobile terminals. Since then, a series of changes have taken place in our lives around the terminal operating system.

We all love change and hate to get used to it, as is the case with the Internet, and maybe so is human nature. When the hour hand quietly pointed to the 1920s of the 21st century, the 5G era officially arrived. At this time, we will naturally wonder whether the operating system and mobile ecology will remain the same, or will we welcome a whole new cycle of development?

In 2019, we have smelled the smell of industrial change, and the intersection of change fell on Huawei terminal and EMUI. From the perspective of external business pattern, a series of actions taken by the US government since May 19 have objectively forced Huawei to become more independent in operating system and mobile ecology; from the core of technology and industry, Huawei has gradually explored the terminal interaction mode and technical implementation logic based on distributed technology and hardware virtualization, from GPU Turbo to Ark compiler to EMUI10.

With the integration of internal and external forces, 2019 has become the dividing line of changes in the global mobile industry. With the sustainable development of the industry in 2020, this distinction is continuing to advance, and Huawei's strategic pattern and technology system in mobile interaction and mobile ecology are becoming more and more clear. On April 8th, Huawei EMUI 10.1 was unveiled with Huawei's P40 series flagship.

In EMUI 10.1, we can not only read Huawei's new breakthroughs and new experiences in software capabilities, but also grasp the overall pulse of mobile ecology and mobile interaction logic in the rise of Huawei terminals, the global trade situation, and the 5G context.

No one cares about the earthquake hidden in the deep sea, and only when the waves surge, do we know that there is a real tsunami. Let's try to read the changes of the larger era together in the iteration from EMUI10 to EMUI 10.1.

The key of the Star: the Open door of the Alliance of everything

EMUI10 was officially launched at the Huawei developer Conference in August 2019. Unlike all previous EMUI versions, and even all Android-based customized UI, EMUI10 is surrounded by special questions and offers its own special answers.

There is no doubt that the impact of Android and Google GMS under the US ban has caused a series of questions, and the first signs of Hong Meng have attracted global attention. However, many observations may ignore that EMUI10, which appeared on the same day as Hongmeng, carries the system capabilities and technical characteristics of Hongmeng system, and can be regarded as the forerunner and cornerstone of Hongmeng.

The value of EMUI10 is that it shows that Huawei is not a substitute, but is determined to explore a whole new technology of operating system and terminal interaction. Huawei is affected by the present, but what it is fighting for is the future.

The core of this exploration is that EMUI10 applied distributed technology to the full scene experience for the first time. Through the hardware virtualization and distributed features of EMUI10, Huawei end-users can realize scene-based applications such as full-scene audio and video calls, collaborative office across terminals, smart vehicles and so on.

The so-called "distributed" technology is essentially a collection of software technologies across terminal devices, including a series of distributed computing, storage, soft bus, and hardware virtualization technologies. The goal of the combination of these technologies is to pool the capability resources of hardware devices and call them on demand through software distributed technology, so as to break the hardware restrictions and reassemble the original independently divided terminal capability modules into a more powerful device experience that goes beyond past cognition to form a super terminal. Under this technology path, future users can seamlessly connect and operate a variety of terminal devices, such as mobile phones, smart screens, computers, tablets and wearable devices. Combined with the development history of mobile terminals, we can simply find the changes brought about by EMUI10 and "distributed", rewriting the basic rules of the mobile operating system since 2007. It carries the differentiated technology system of Huawei software from GPU Turbo and Ark Compiler, answers a series of basic software and operating system challenges that may be ushered in after May 19 to the left, connects Huawei's full scene intelligent living product system proposed by Huawei to the right, and points forward to a multi-terminal era full of imagination for developers.

It can be said that EMUI10 has opened the door of starry splendor with distributed technology. There are a total of 41 upgraded models of EMUI10. As of March 23, 2020, 35 models have been upgraded and the number of upgraded users has exceeded 120 million. The huge number of users plays a vital role in promoting the innovation of distributed technology, and has become the driving force of Huawei's continuous innovation on the operating system.

And if EMUI10 is a clear signal and direction, the next question Huawei needs to answer is: is this direction short-term show-off or long-term persistence? can ecology, developers and users trust the new software logic opened by Huawei?

EMUI 10.1 is answering this question.

Shi Zhi step: a New ladder of distributed Technology for EMUI 10.1

Distributed technology and full-scene intelligent life are like a brand new key and door. After the door is open, the whole industry will have to go through layers of fog and move towards that new world step by step.

On the other hand, EMUI 10.1 proves to us the real progress and scene integration ability of the Alliance of everything.

Take the office scene as an example, multi-terminal coexistence has become a daily office, but it has also created a lot of problems. For example, you have to constantly switch between mobile phones and computers at work, and you have to reorganize your ideas every time you change the screen, which greatly affects work efficiency. I believe many people have this experience, writing a document suddenly answer a phone, and then take advantage of the opportunity to play with the mobile phone. When I went back to the computer, I forgot what I had just written, and immediately changed from an elite in the office to a child with a lot of question marks. For example, the files between mobile phones and computers are not synchronized, and they need to be transferred, fetched and edited frequently, and soon the files are messed up into a pot of porridge, and even when they encounter troublesome problems, they even have to turn to the programmer's younger brother.

Distributed technology may be the best antidote to these problems. The new multi-terminal office experience is supported in EMUI 10.1. Based on distributed technology, Huawei users can directly use the computer to open audio and video calls, without the terminal work to pick up the phone to answer the phone. The trick here is that distributed technology shares the microphones and speakers of the phone and the computer, allowing the two bodies on the hardware to share the same software soul, never answering a phone call and getting caught up in "who am I and where am I?" the soul of what am I staring at the computer?

In addition, EMUI 10.1 also allows Huawei computers to directly open and edit mobile phone files, and can also access the mobile phone network with one click to display mobile phone notifications synchronously. In this way, the problems that may be encountered in office and learning scenes, such as the problem of file transfer, the problem that computers go out to work without network, and the problem of missing important mobile phone information during the office have been solved. The obstacles that multi-terminals bring to the office have become efficiency improvement tools with the blessing of distributed features, and even become a small surprise of "I use Huawei, so I don't work overtime".

In life, full-scene distributed technology can also bring about many changes. Through the modularization of different hardware, EMUI 10.1allows Huawei users to share the screen during video calls and to doodle freely on the screen and share information while chatting. This changes the common sense that cross-terminal communication is limited to voice and video, and makes the system itself have better sharing characteristics, which provides a new imagination for remotely teaching families to use mobile phones, remote collaborative work, and online online shopping. In addition, the distributed gallery also supports the same Huawei account and the same home WLAN network, any device can browse, search and share pictures and videos from other devices, improving the seamless experience of home mobile life.

At the same time, in addition to upgrading the new operating experience and UI design, EMUI 10.1 also pioneered a revolutionary way of interaction-the multi-device control center. This capability enables collaboration between smart devices. By swiping upward from the lower left or lower right corner of the screen, users can manage the working status of multiple devices at any time, such as turning on or off IoT devices, mobile phone screen casting, multi-screen collaboration, and so on. When users are watching video, listening to music and connecting calls, the system can also intelligently recommend nearby devices to achieve multi-device cooperation to understand the needs of users. EMUI 10.1 has completed another release and upgrade of EMUI10 technical features in a few months. This efficiency and jump is Huawei's answer to the full scene smart life and the corresponding operating system technology direction. The arrival of technology is the best strategic statement and self-proof of value.

The Journey of Fire: the Exploration and distinction of Mobile system

Everyone, regardless of gender, nationality or age, is all too familiar with smartphones in just a decade, familiar with APP distribution, familiar with touch screens and slides, and familiar with our still new contact information with the world. It's a miracle, but it's also a problem.

The question is how the industry will develop in the future, and whether there are opportunities for mobile interaction and mobile experience to move forward. Are there new opportunities for mobile apps and ecology?

When we are willing to sit down and face this problem objectively and honestly, we will find that the updates of iOS and Android are slowing down year by year, and the rate of business ecological innovation of the mobile Internet is greatly declining. we yearn for something new, but we don't know what it is.

At this peculiar point in time, the full-scene solutions and distributed technologies represented by EMUI10 suddenly emerged from the industry perspective. We may not be able to say that the US move has spurred Huawei's innovation. But to some extent, external dynamics and internal long-term evolution together led to the start-up of EMUI10 and then to the panoramic interaction mode solidly promoted by EMUI 10.1. This constitutes the most distinctive evolution path of mobile system technology in the industry around the world. Behind this is the deployment of Huawei's software system for many years, as well as 5G and the changing times of the whole scene, the crisscross of the industrial structure, and the strange angle created by the ban in the United States.

As for the results of this road. We can see that in the second half of 1919, under external pressure, Huawei maintained EMUI's consistent fast and industry-leading upgrade pace and coverage of the number of models, upgrade user breadth-user choice and Huawei's upgrade ability, is the final say.

With the same frequency of EMUI10 technology breakthroughs, is the construction of HMS ecology, Huawei in 5G, AI, computational photography and other technical points of full formation. There are still many variables, but the direction of the dividing line of the times is already very clear. Perhaps in the near future, we will see EMUI, Hongmeng, and behind the technology path and industry judgment, further decoupling from Android, thus forming a third option for mobile systems.

This is a road born in the fire, a forced road, but it is also an event with a high probability of occurrence under the great pattern of the times. The ultimate problem is that users need new experiences, multi-terminal lifestyles need new integration, and global mobile ecology needs new cycles of opportunity.

From EMUI 10.1, we can read not only the opening way of the whole scene of intelligent life, but also some kindling about the future.

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