[Blasterlord2]

Your info is incorrect - Let's do some Fact Checking:

a. It was the US Gov that forced Google to stop providing service to Huawei mobile phones. Not the Google Inc decision.
That began since Trump and Biden continue the anti-Huawei policy

b. Android has been around for 15 years..as old as iOS. Google bought Android later, but iOS remains under Apple Inc control.
Since Android had open source components, many smartphone makers from Samsung to Oppo are able use Android and so Android became popular...Huawei was one of the beneficiary of that OPEN SOURCE. Given the FACTS both Apple and Android dominates the global mobile OS today, why would Huawei wanna re-invent the wheel  ?  This is why Huawei position its HarmonyOS differently...which is very very tough given Android and iOS domination...Giants like Microsoft, Nokia etc had failed.

That is where HarmonyOS comes in and why it is different from mobile-phone dependent Android and iOS.

There's nothing incorrect with what I've posted. It's simply that your interpretation is incorrect.

I've said that Harmony OS is just a flavour of Android, what's wrong with that? Whether it is Google or the US govt that forces the restriction of HW is out of point, as it's totally irrelevant to the argument.

Your statement that "why would Huawei wanna re-invent the wheel" is precisely what I've said, that HW is simply using Android, given that the task is humongous. 

Harmony OS is not distinctly different from Android. Anybody who thinks otherwise does not have a good sense of how Android works.