Most cell phone corporations choose to make use of Android, with its personal distinctive interface and options. Huawei bucked the pattern by creating Concord OS, nevertheless it was a necessity resulting from geopolitical restrictions. Regardless of its huge sources, Huawei has confronted main challenges in creating an alternate platform to Android.
Different telephone working techniques, reminiscent of Home windows Telephone and webOS, have additionally fallen by the wayside.
The cellular producer Nothing, recognized for difficult market norms, is now contemplating creating its personal working system from scratch, Techcrunch stories. Throughout Techcrunch Disrupt 2024, the corporate’s founder and CEO, Carl Pei, confirmed that Nothing is exploring what a proprietary Nothing OS might imply.
Pei criticised the duopoly that Google and Apple have. “We’re occupied with how we maneuver right here… and possibly create one thing of our personal. Some form of working system,” he mentioned. The purpose can be to each amplify Nothing’s affect on the business and create a brand new income stream.
Pei famous {that a} proprietary OS wouldn’t solely give the corporate larger management over the person expertise but additionally be extra worthwhile than {hardware}, with its excessive prices and dangers. It already makes an attention-grabbing pores and skin for its Android telephones (see above) which is already known as ‘Nothing OS’.
He defined that the event of AI expertise has made it simpler to construct working techniques right this moment, and that Nothing can give attention to enhancing the person expertise slightly than the technical fundamentals like {hardware} drivers and core parts.
Nothing introduced the glow-in-the-dark Telephone (2a) Plus Group Version final week.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and tailored from Swedish.
