Huawei has officially announced HarmonyOS, the operating system developed to replace its reliance on Android. The Chinese tech giant said the operating system, a microkernel-based distributed OS, can be used in everything from smartphones to smart speakers, wearables, and in-vehicle systems to create a shared ecosystem across devices. The operating system will be released as […]
Android is resurgent in Australia, according to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC). The research firm found that devices with the popular Google operating system (OS) had rebounded to account for 63% of smartphones shipped in the country in Q2 2017, while Apple’s iOS was installed on 37% of devices shipped that quarter. Android’s share […]
Android has surpassed Windows as the world’s most popular operating system for internet usage for the first time, according to new statistics. The data, from web analytics company StatCounter, indicates that Google’s mobile OS topped the worldwide OS internet usage market share in March with 37.93%. Windows-running devices, meanwhile, accounted for 37.91% of internet usage […]