Is there a chance for the mobile operating system to fight against Ubuntu?

Android has a market share of more than 70% in the smartphone market. Some surveys even show that it has reached 80%, and more than 50% in tablet computers. Relatively, the iphone only has about 15% market share, and the ipad series also fell below 50%. With the strong development of Android, other mobile operating systems have two types of development. One is that there are still 3rd types of Operating Systems in the market, or you must have this opportunity, because telecom carriers want a balance between Android and ios, or believe that they can still be separated

Android has a market share of more than 70% in the smartphone market. Some surveys even show that it has reached 80%, and more than 50% in tablet computers. Relatively, the iphone only has about 15% market share, and the ipad series also fell below 50%.

With the strong development of Android, other mobile operating systems have two types of development. One is that there are still 3rd types of Operating Systems in the market, or you must have this opportunity, because telecom carriers want a balance between Android and ios, or believe that there is still a space for development. The other is to admit that it is difficult to compete with the two, but must demand transformation.

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Differentiated development in the mobile phone Field

Operating systems that can still be developed or separated, such as firefox OS of the mozilla Foundation, are encouraged by telecom carriers and are expected to be separated from mainstream Android systems in the price and regional market, firefox OS phones are not expected to be associated with the price, from $100 to $50 and $25, which is different from Android phones with more than $200, at the same time, it also focuses on the initial market in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Firefox OS is dominated by mobile phones and supports mobile phones from mainland China, such as Huawei, ZTE, and tcl. However, Hon Hai also proposed the firefox OS flat OEM service, though there is no support from brand system vendors.

Similar to firefox OS, which has continued in the mobile operating system field is the sailfish OS proposed by jolla. Its predecessor is the mer software project, but its Backtracking is the meego operating system, back to nokia's maemo and intel's moblin. Sailfish OS is currently used by Finnish telecom carrier dna. In short, jolla (formerly the meego team of nokia) is reluctant to give up meego with nokia's policy and attempt to develop separately.

Turning to other fields

However, given up its development in the mobile phone and mobile markets, tizen, webos, etc. tizen was still expected to develop in the mobile phone field, but ntt docomo, a heavyweight carrier, withdrew, orange, a French telecom carrier, said that tizen had no appetite for 3rd mobile operating systems. tizen's dominant player, samsung, had not launched any commercially available tizen smartphones, only in the presentation phase.

Therefore, tizen has already transformed the wearable electronics field, not only releasing wearable Software Development kits, but also samsung released new smart watches such as gear 2 and gear 2 neo during mwc 2014, tizen operating system is adopted.

Similarly, lg did not use webos for mobile phones, tablets, and other products after taking over hp's webos operating system. Currently, it is only used for Smart TVs, replacing lg's original netcast system, however, lg does not own all webos, hp still holds some webos patents, and the cloud services supporting webos, online app Store app catalog, and so on are still controlled by hp.

Generic operating system positioning

In addition to the above, there are also operating systems that have been widely developed, namely, Linux. In early 2014, valve developed a set of steamos Based On Debian Linux, it also called on more than 10 pc players to launch desktop computers that support steamos. Once the computer is installed with steamos and connected to the living room TV, it can achieve the functions of media play center and TV game instrument, it is equivalent to declaring war on microsoft media center, microsoft xbox one, sony playstation 4 and other products, and valve has announced that steamos is permanently authorized for free download and use.

Another example is Ubuntu Linux (also from Debian Linux), which has been widely used in new devices since its launch in markets such as servers and PCs. For example, the derivative version for Smart TVs is Ubuntu TV, for tablet computers, Ubuntu on tablet is used. for smart phones, Ubuntu for Android and Ubuntu phone are also proposed.

Ubuntu for Android is installed on a relatively high-standard smart phone. Basically, this mobile phone is generally used on Android mobile phones. But when you get home, you only need to connect the keyboard (Bluetooth wireless) to your mobile phone), screen (micro usb mhl output), you can turn the phone into a Linux computer.

Ubuntu phone is a mobile operating system that does not depend on Android. However, Ubuntu phone and Ubuntu on tablet quickly converge into Ubuntu touch because the differences between Ubuntu phone and Ubuntu phone are quite small, generally, only the display size of the device is different.

Finally, the Ubuntu edge smartphone is actually Ubuntu for Android. Although it failed to raise funds on the indiegogo website last year (the target is $32 million), it still has $ more than 10 million to use, with the continuous implementation of the phone is pc concept, the era of set-top box and three-in-one (television, computer, and telephone), which can even act as an intelligent electric TV, is likely to come.

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