The ban that the U.S. government had put on Huawei has made its experiment with its own products, and after it announced HarmonyOS (HongmengOS), the company has revealed that it is going to launch its own home-grown mapping kit similar to the Google Maps. Though the company has still not admitted that the HarmonyOS will be empowering its smartphones, it definitely is going to feature its mapping app into them.
The company has been facing some serious issues, and it got almost banned in the U.S. Though the company got a relaxation for the trade in the U.S., and it is expected to get 90 more days to operate in the country, it still is banned from embedding Google Maps into its smartphones.
This has led the company to take another step towards independence, such that it is already up to developing on its own mapping app, named Map Kit. The company will be incorporating over 150 countries into the very mapping kit, and for that, it will be operating with the local mapping apps.
The mapping app is not for the public use, instead, the developers would be able to create their map apps based on the kit. The kit will combine features, like street views and navigation, that will also show real-time traffic condition. The kit can also be used to add a location tracking feature in other apps, and for that, the kit will render support for the augmented reality.
“Huawei Map Kit will be available in 40 languages. It will offer real-time traffic conditions and a highly sophisticated navigation system which can recognize a car changing lanes. It will also support augmented-reality mapping,” Zhang Pingan, the president of cloud services of the consumer business group at Huawei, said in a statement.
But the company still has got into ties with an American company named Booking Holdings to work on the new mapping service. The U.S. government has though given the company the permit to work in the U.S. market, still the company is now aware that it is not permanent, and the company has to bring its own products if it wants to continue to rule the smartphone market.
In the past, many big companies have tried to build their own products, and not all have succeeded in that. The independence from the use of the third-party product will help Huawei to focus on the smartphone markets other than the U.S., and the company can also gain the customer base for its products, that the other companies would use into their products, such as is new HarmonyOS and the mapping kit. Huawei will be bringing the mapping kit in coming October.
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