China has always tried to support its
homegrown tech industry and even the
security concerns over U.S. secret surveillance
which gives Chinese Government another
reasons to trust domestic vendors.Many other
countries are also in favor to develop their
own technology industries to reduce their
dependence on U.S.
The Government of China is not too fond of
foreign mobile operating systems and therefore
are trying to break the monopoly of Microsoft,
Apple and Google in the country.
This week at an event in Beijing, China has
unveiled its own Linux-based mobile platform,
dubbed China Operating System (COS),
developed as a joint effort between a company
'Shanghai Liantong', ISCAS (Institute of
Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
and the Chinese Government.
According to COS website, it is designed for
PCs, Smartphones, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes
and other smart appliances. It runs Java
applications, supports HTML5 and can run over
100,000 apps.
At the launch event, the head of the ISCAS
criticized Apple’s iOS for being a closed
ecosystem, Android for its fragmentation
issues, and Windows Phone for its poor
security.
According to the promo video, the China
Operating System (COS) interface and functions
are much like Android, specifically very similar
to HTC’s Sense 5.
However, many Chinese users are criticizing
this operating system on social media sites,
“What does COS stand for? COPY OTHER
SYSTEM?… But it really does look like a fusion
of the Apple, Android, Symbian, and
Blackberry operating system,”
Another user commented, "It’s not open
source because they’re terrified that others
will see that the source code is the same as
Android, and accuse them of cheating the
government out of money,"
Four years back, China once tried to create its
own Linux-based, open mobile operating
system called "OPhone or OMS (Open Mobile
System)", but it was failed to gain popularity
and discontinued after 2011.
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