“Surrender”
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.“
The spin has been strong of late because of the economic dealings between the US and China. I find it ironically humorous that the thing that President Trump rilled against the most. The Trade imbalance between China and the US turned into the greatest tool for him to inflict his displeasure. But that’s OT.
I am not going to go into the whole 5G thing but OS alone.
The story lists the two most popular Mobile OS.
Google’s Alphabet’s Android, which is popular because just about everyone who makes mobile smart devices uses a fork of it.
As such it has an extensive apps store and plentiful supply of Phones, “Phabets”, tablets and even lap tops.
I have used three devices of this type ZTE Maven <Broke on me in 2 months> ASUS<broke on me in two weeks>
Samsung <lasted 2 years, still have it just letting the last of my minutes die>
The lions share of the smart device market is Droids at over 74%
Apple’s IOS. Despite what people think IPhone was about the fourth smart phone IBM Simon was the first. ThenNOKIA 9000Series followed by the Blackberry.
But the secret sauces of the IPhone set the mold for successive smart devices. The touch screen face display that was in full color and apps store that allowed rapid tailoring became the norm to this day. Blackberry was a texting machine. Nokia 9000 and the IBM Simon were a decade to early with black and white or black and gold LCD screens and limited by the apps on the market. Fine for a game of snake or texting but you can’t watch GOT on the train with them. Apple drove that media right into people’s pockets.
<I currently own both a Apple IPhone8 and a Apple IPad Mini 4 both bought in the last 6 months. I bought the IPad first then the IPhone for the sake of commonality between them. Neither are the newest of the line I am well aware.>
Apple right now is actually in a bit of a slump. iPhone sales have been falling well the price point is going back up. When IPhone first launched it was a virtual monopoly, but with Android as the ubiquitous OS and made by just about every maker other than Apple the brand has slipped back. There is obviously still demand. A plentiful apps store and every time I have visited a brick and mortar Apple store it’s packed wall to wall with people. Even when I bought my IPhone at the AT&T store there were other people drooling over the latest IPhone X. Despite being proprietary it holds ~22% of the industry.
These two are the Giants but there have been others.
Remember Windows?
Microsoft Windows Phone OS was supposed to be the third option using Microsoft as the base it launched on Nokia phones. The OS worked. <I was a launch costumer with a lower end device> but the biggest issue was the apps store. It was empty. I used that phone almost 3 years. It was durable it was reliable it was functional it never had a wide variety of apps beyond the stock offerings on the phone. Eventually I hear they got more but that was long after I had traded in my phone for an Android. It’s still active but sits at about .28% of the industry
kaiOS
What? Seriously there are more MOS already and KaiOS is one of them it’s a fork of the attempt at a Firefox OS. The likely third option emerging at .81%
There are others they all sit in that less that 1% range.
And we have heard of a Chinese OS before
Yuanxi OS
Remember that one? Back in 2014 it was supposed to be China’s Apple mincer/Droid killer. Have yet to hear anything more for the last 5 years.
There are others still but it’s not a question of getting the OS to work. It’s a question of getting users to buy and apps makers to write for you. Many an OS emerged only to fall due to lack of interest leading to makers no longer support it or it being a labor of love OS updated by fan programmers.