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India Planning Homegrown Operating System to Rival iOS and Android

I've worked with a lot of Indian programmers, and while some of them are very talented, the companies managing them will be the reason this fails.
 
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This is going to be dead on arrival.

Also 'Indian electronics exports' is nothing more than cheap labor that isn't in China. Any poor country with enough infrastructure will be good enough.
 
aplnub said:
Even if India is a little bit successful, this poses more a threat to Google than Apple. I see this going in the direction of full on government spy OS.
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I think this is the future and I think it's not so great. Each country hacking up their own OS with spying built in. Because when their own OS fails miserably, the only choice they will have is to ban all other OSs, including free and open OSs like linux. Unless the people get control of their governments we will all be ruled by government technology.
 
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brio said:
There are almost 1.4 billion people in India... more than 4 times the number of US citizens, so guys, do not underestimate their ability to do this, who knows.
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Microsoft, with all its resources and experience could not make Windows Phone sustainably competitive. Phones with Linux OSes have been around for a while and, while offering great functionality (eg, USB-C dock it to have access to a full desktop experience) have gained almost no ground.
Out of the 1.4B, how many do you think will work on this? Out of those, how many do you think will use it? What are they going to do that others have not?
 
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Yeah it will probably be a fork of Android and resemble hot garbage like that time N. Korea made a Mac OS rip off on top of Linux

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bookofxero said:
Tizen was the first to come to mind when I read the headline. I think Huawei is/was trying the same.
I also remember some Linux phones thst never got much traction. I believe Purism even has one on the market right now.
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I still have my BQ Aquarius 4.5 with Ubuntu that I keep updating. Android compatibility layer has been promised for a while. As soon as I see that working so I can get the 2-5 apps that I really need working OK under Ubuntu, I'm switching.
 
Mc0 said:
I think Samsung tried this before when they developed tizen OS but didn’t gain enough popularity. Let’s see what they can bring to the market.
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That’s because Samsung is Korean, and Korea is a vassal state of the US. You can’t trump your master without facing annihilation. Same with Japan, or France. But not Russia and China. In the distant future, maybe India. They are the alternative and the replacement to the current world order. You can’t ultimately win in a Casino, but you can open up a new one across the street and bleed out the old one.
 
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GolferChris68 said:
I suppose anything is possible, but iOS and Android have massive ecosystems with support of tens of thousands of large and small app developers, serving millions of users. They're also mature operating systems that have gone through numerous iterations to improve and mature into what they are today. I don't see how this succeeds unless iOS and Android devices are banned, and citizens there are forced to use something mandated by their government.
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There are ways to address this. On my old Blackberry Passport you had apps specifically from BlackBerry World, but the OS had Android Runtime which was locked when launched. It would allow you to run compatible Android apps for that runtime. So that is one way.
 
Mr. Dee said:
I think it’s a good thing. You never know they might even introduce innovations that Apple and Alphabet end up licensing. Besides, something homegrown that includes specific cultural features Google or Apple doesn’t care about is a major incentive for adoption.
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You think Apple iPhone will drop their selling price? Because of the indigenous OS? LoL
 
Sean J said:
State mandated initiatives like this rarely produce innovative, high-quality results. In a totalitarian regime like China this could work, but in a democracy like India the free-market will determine whether this succeeds or not. If the localisation for Indian consumers in iOS and Android is as good as for English or Spanish speakers, then it’s difficult to see a killer-feature for this.
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It will benefit Tata only, or maybe reliance group
 
Good luck to them in writing a rival OS that doesn't turn into a hot mess of bugs, malware, and isn't complete open to their government (and others) to track/monitor.
 
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benroberts3 said:
This will be a guaranteed failure. No citizen will want to use a mobile phone OS created in partnership with the government. Location tracking, call monitoring, access to financial accounts?! This is a data and privacy nightmare. Plus, none of the Android hardware manufacturers (Samsung, Nokia, Huawei, Oppo, etc) would ever allow this OS to replace the custom OS they have over Android. Android is already a tough operating system to deal with due multiple versions, hundreds of carriers with their spin on the OS, and all the hardware manufacturers.

The Indian government needs to lower its manufacturing/operating expectations and allow for foreign companies to invest and do business in country without manufacturing and taxation restrictions.
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90% of India's 1B people will probably _never_ be able to afford an iPhone.

This can be government subsidised for the internal market - with internal controls e.g. prevent crypto currency apps - enforce banking laws, avoid misinformation platforms by adversaries.

For India this makes a lot of sense.

Noone outside India will want or care.

I would rather have my goverment tracking me than some other government which has even less accountability to the populace.
 
laz232 said:
90% of India's 1B people will probably _never_ be able to afford an iPhone.

This can be government subsidised for the internal market - with internal controls e.g. prevent crypto currency apps - enforce banking laws, avoid misinformation platforms by adversaries.

For India this makes a lot of sense.

Noone outside India will want or care.

I would rather have my goverment tracking me than some other government which has even less accountability to the populace.
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Well, they are wasting their resources and time. Pity. And it is not benefit to their people at all.

Who will want to invest their time/energy/money to develop this?
 
It’s not the OS that’s important it’s developers, they need to give a compelling reason for developers to develop for their platform.

they not only need an OS but an AppStore a great set of SDK tools a large enough install base which is going to be hard to achieve as buyers of the new phone are not going to see any third party apps like iOS and Android, as one has too remember iOS took time before Apps came along as well as Android tho today the average user is going to expect apps from day one
 
laz232 said:
90% of India's 1B people will probably _never_ be able to afford an iPhone.

This can be government subsidised for the internal market - with internal controls e.g. prevent crypto currency apps - enforce banking laws, avoid misinformation platforms by adversaries.

For India this makes a lot of sense.

Noone outside India will want or care.

I would rather have my goverment tracking me than some other government which has even less accountability to the populace.
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So why on earth Apple is opening their retail stores in India.
 
Xiaojohn said:
You think Apple iPhone will drop their selling price? Because of the indigenous OS? LoL
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Nope, it won’t. But it’s a large pie, nearly 8 billion people on the planet, I’m sure there is enough room for many more platforms.
 
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