A few days ago, the media reported that another mobile phone company seems to be developing its own operating system, named *IOS, and has applied for domain name registration. This is considered to be a sign that it has begun to develop its own mobile phone operating system. direction.
About *IOS was first reported in 2014, but it did not become a reality for some reason. The mobile phone company has been using a modified version of the Android system since then, that is, based on the Android system, it has been deeply customized and cut out Google. All the applications, plus its own UI, are more in line with the usage habits of Chinese people in terms of operation interface.
The mobile phone company's customized Android system was once hailed as the best operating system among domestic mobile phones, and even the interface designer of the mobile phone company caused a competition between two mobile phone companies, and finally the mobile phone company acquired the interface designer's company The result highlights the leading edge of the mobile phone company in terms of operating system UI.
Since then, the self-developed operating system of domestic mobile phones has gradually cooled down until 2019 when Google suddenly stopped authorizing GMS services to a domestic mobile phone company, which led to the mobile phone company directly launching its own operating system to compete with Google's Android. It is said that the number of users of this domestic operating system has reached 700 million, forming a tripartite situation with iOS and Android.
At present, the domestic mobile phone operating system has been very successful. In order to ensure that there are enough applications in the early days, its operating system is compatible with Google's AOSP. The reason is that AOSP is an open source project, just like Linux. Anyone can use it. Therefore, It has caused controversy over whether such an operating system is a truly self-developed system, but now it has completely abandoned AOSP, and the debate has been quelled.
Now another domestic mobile phone company seems to be planning to take this path. By being compatible with AOSP, it solves the problem of lack of applications in the early stage. independent operating system.
This mobile phone company has such confidence because the annual sales of mobile phones are as high as 150 million. In addition, there are huge ecological products, and there may even be cars in the future. Under such circumstances, it is really necessary to build its own operating system to achieve many The product relies on an operating system to integrate multiple screens.
It is quite necessary for automobiles and other products to adopt self-developed operating systems. An Internet car company said that because the iPhone is compatible with the company's cars, it is worried that these mobile phone companies will use this to affect car companies in the future, so it is already developing mobile phones. It has prompted companies in various industries to try to control the right to speak in the system.
Of course, there are risks in developing an independent operating system. Google, which owns Android, will naturally not allow Android mobile phone companies to develop their own operating systems. system, then Google has nothing to do.