Daily SumUp

Chinese consumer electronics company has been shipping smartphones and smart TVs powered by the company’s homegrown HarmonyOS software for the past few years. Now Huawei has introduced its first laptop that will ship with HarmonyOS rather than Windows.

The move to develop its own operating system wasn’t entirely Huawei’s idea – the company has been put in a tight spot by US sanctions that prevent US-based companies like Google and Microsoft from doing business with Huawei, which limited the company’s access first to Android, and more recently to Windows. But the upshot for Huawei is that the company now has far more control over the hardware and software inside all of its devices.