2065438+2004 was the year when Huawei's mobile phones took off. That year, Huawei's new P series used a brand-new EMUI, and the iPhone 5S became famous in China. This comparison seems natural. There is no doubt that EMUI was not as good as iOS at that time, but we have confidence in the domestic mobile phone market, and the huge consumer market will promote the development of EMUI in a better direction.
Under the demand and pressure, we have seen today's HarmonyOS system OS. Just as we did seven years ago, when Chinese people were eager to own their own systems, it naturally became a favorite thing to compare HarmonyOS OS and iOS.
So after using HarmonyOS OS for one month and getting a clearer understanding of HarmonyOS OS, let's compare the differences between them.
Dynamic effect, the basis of smooth interaction
How to compare iOS and HarmonyOS OS can actually be seen from many aspects, such as ecological capability and multi-screen collaboration, and it is also the core scenario in the future. But from the user's point of view, the experience of the system itself is the most concerned and accessible, and fluency naturally becomes one of the few choices.
Looking back at the feelings that iOS gives us now, most people's answer should be "smooth". Even if the opening speed of iOS is not as fast as that of native Android, the smooth connection will still make people feel that iOS is much smoother than Android. From motion formula, rendering to control, iOS has a systematic real-time interactive physical system.
System-level fluency, because of the advantages of Huawei Mate 40Pro on the screen, we give up comparing the sliding fluency of the page, but compare the opening effect of the application, such as dynamic effect and opening speed. In fact, after the OS of HarmonyOS system was updated, a few netizens thought that the dynamic effect of the OS of HarmonyOS system was similar to that of iOS. Let's take a look at the comparison of the applications that come with the startup system. On the left is Huawei Mate40 Pro (HarmonyOS OS), and on the right is iPhone12 Pro Max (iOS14.6).
There are some differences in the speed of the opening process, and the dynamic effect of iOS from small to large changes more obviously. However, when you return to the home page, the contrast between HarmonyOS OS and iOS is very similar. When you return to the home page, the background of the home page will change obviously, and there will be some focusing-like effects, such as the enlargement process in which the foreground application squeezes the home page icons to the lower level, and these icons will return to the normal display state after returning to the home page. The effect of multi-application open continuous animation is more obvious.
The effect of drop-down animation is somewhat different, mainly because HarmonyOS OS will have a certain rebound effect after drop-down, but iOS does not. The animation effect of closing the drop-down bar is similar.
Multi-task animation, on the whole, except for different arrangements, gradually enters from the left and slides to the center of the screen for display.
The brand-new high-performance dynamic engine not only endows HarmonyOS OS with better dynamic performance, but also greatly improves its fluency. At the same time, the application interface and dynamic performance are processed to avoid the stuck problem when the system is continuously opened with "high intensity". From the effect point of view, the dynamic effect of HarmonyOS OS gradually keeps pace with iOS.
The application of opening speed, the system is also very important.
A few years ago, some netizens vomited on the post bar: "Is it meaningful to compare the opening speed of applications? Feeling is a problem of system optimization. What does it have to do with mobile phone configuration? " In fact, the opening speed of the application is not only related to the hardware, especially the single core (single task) of the CPU, but also related to the system optimization. For an inappropriate example, Android is like "taking off your pants and farting". It may take a few more steps than iOS to achieve the same effect, but will our HarmonyOS OS be as fast as iOS?
We downloaded the same 30 common applications on Huawei Mate 40Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Because of the uncertainty of open-screen advertisements of some applications, we will compare them according to each application, and the faster one will get 1, and the slower one will not score.
Clear the background, the first application starts animation, and iOS is a little faster than HarmonyOS OS. Don't leave yet. Let's start a video, freeze it in a certain picture, and then quit for subsequent verification. The same is true for other operable applications.
In the subsequent comparison and verification, the overall OS of HarmonyOS system is still slightly slower than iOS 14.6. Among the nine applications such as Tik Tok and Weibo, the two systems are "evenly matched", with iOS leading 14 applications and HarmonyOS OS leading only 7 applications. Of course, we can't completely deny the function of HarmonyOS's operating system. After all, even though the performance of Kirin 9000 is "very strong", it still has some disadvantages compared with the performance ceiling A 14 of mobile phone chips.
However, HarmonyOS's operating system is not without advantages. For example, the application of Tencent News, iPhone 12 Pro Max has an open screen advertisement every cold start, while Huawei Mate40 Pro only has the first cold start. In the remaining verification, Huawei Mate 40 Pro did not open the screen advertisement. Although opening the screen advertisement is the behavior of the application itself, does this mean that in some applications, the average startup time of iOS 14 will be further lengthened because of opening the screen advertisement? This can further narrow the gap between HarmonyOS OS and iOS 14.
Background resident effect
A long time ago, Android killed background applications, which is the common sense of many people. At that time, under the limitation of memory, Android phones generally only had about 6 background mounts. Today's Android phones rarely kill the background in daily use because of their large memory capacity. However, in large-scale applications, or when opening some applications that are very easy to kill the background, some applications that take up a lot of memory for a long time are still easy to be "secretly" terminated.
The background mechanism of iOS is undoubtedly very intelligent. The tombstone mechanism is deeply rooted in people's hearts and can release more memories according to the actual situation. On the HarmonyOS OS, the ability of application state maintenance and recovery has been greatly enhanced, and 30 applications in the previous test of application startup speed will come in handy.
We started 30 applications in the last link in reverse order, because each application (except soul) actively selected a secondary page other than the home page, so it can be seen at a glance whether it is hot-started. The penultimate application (idle fish), HarmonyOS OS takes the lead in cold start.
However, in many subsequent applications, the operating system of HarmonyOS system is in a warm-up state. In the penultimate application (Vipshop), HarmonyOS OS and iOS both entered a cold start state. So far, iOS has won by 1:2. In the recent application of 10, all iOS are in a cold start state, while HarmonyOS OS only has Baidu map, Quark map, Gaode map and Tik Tok as cold start. On the whole, 24 of the 30 applications started by HarmonyOS OS were retained, with a retention rate of 80%, while iOS 14.6 only retained 18, with a retention rate of 60%.
According to the experience of other HarmonyOS OS users, HarmonyOS OS can show better performance in the game, start multiple games at the same time, and maintain a "seamless" game experience in the process of switching multiple games. The glory of the king and Peace Elite have been included in the above 30 applications. We landed at the training ground respectively, and then opened the 3rd1application, Genshin Impact, and entered the game. Note that at this time, the mobile phone has started the 3 1 application (regardless of the situation that the system automatically ends the background).
In this case, whether it is HarmonyOS OS or iOS 14.6, the biggest problem is actually the network connection in the background. Except for the glory of the king, the other two games were disconnected and reconnected after the game started up.
Then, we keep the game running in the background and continue to open the 32nd application, which is the "camera" that is the easiest to kill the background. We opened the video and recorded it for 10 minutes. We will watch it again after 10 minutes. We found that HarmonyOS OS (Huawei Mate 40 Pro) needs to restart the glory of the king and the peace elite, while Genshin Impact still disconnects and reconnects.
On the IOs14.6 (iphone12 pro max) side, Genshin Impact, a peaceful elite, needs a cold start, while the glory of the king can continue playing the previous games, but in the training mode, the games running in the background will be "suspended".
Generally speaking, the normal application background recovery ability of HarmonyOS OS has been demonstrated, which is satisfactory enough. Compared with its top combination of iPhone12 Promax+iOS14.6, it is still better. However, in the game, HarmonyOS OS failed to fulfill its "talent". I wonder if it's a special case.
At the same time, we also found that the performance of HarmonyOS system OS recovery background was "strange". For example, in a news software, it is like recording the previous browsing position of the application in RAM and system, and then restoring it according to the cache when re-entering the application. After we open the application, we may experience a process of homepage refresh-screen advertisement-progress jump, which is actually time-consuming. The advantage is that users have a lot of peace of mind when using it.
Write it at the end
Android system, or the system customized by domestic mobile phone manufacturers, has always been an enduring topic compared with the fluency of iOS. However, even HarmonyOS OS, which has high hopes, still lags behind iOS in terms of current personal experience, but these gaps have been greatly narrowed, which is a real "promising future".
The debate about HarmonyOS OS has been going on for a long time on the Internet, but I personally think this debate is meaningless. Whether it is or not, HarmonyOS OS has been presented to us in a relatively complete posture, which is essentially different from some projects that cheated funds in the past.
In terms of changes, we can also see the advantages of the HarmonyOS operating system listed by the government. Even if there is still a gap between personal experience and iOS, it is only a small step for domestic systems. In the future, HarmonyOS's operating system will continue to improve, and China may have other "operating systems", so we just need to encourage them.