Homemade operating system COS response to seven questions hints at people questioning because of UI interface?

January 15, the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Lian Tong Network Communication Technology Co., Ltd. jointly released the COS operating system. Cos of the advent of a stone stirred the waves, the industry and netizens have raised a lot of questions. Shanghai Lian Tong Company to accept the network of communication channel reporter interview, for questioning to explain. Question one: In the demo video, the COS system part of the interface and Android system "highly similar", how to explain this? Shanghai Lian Tong: cos of the UI will appear in a variety of forms. In fact, COS provides a standard reference design. On products that actually use Cos, the UI of the product is determined by the specific developer of the product. The vast majority of different types of UI currently in the marketplace are not real operating systems, but components of operating system products. COS will support terminal vendors to develop their own UI based on Cos, or porting existing UI to Cos. COS is a powerful operating system that enables terminal vendors to design different types of UI as needed. It is believed that in the near future, China's intelligent terminals will develop a lot of great and cool UI on the Cos. The different terminals with COS can be interconnected and interoperable. Cos at the beginning of design, considering the future of the type of intelligent terminals will be more and more, the need for interoperability is very common. Cos at the operating system level the need for this is considered. At present, based on the cos of mobile phones and set-top boxes have achieved seamless connection, without the need to load specific applications can achieve content and application sharing, as well as the interoperability between terminals, subsequent other terminal versions will have similar functions. Question two: In the COS system of external publicity materials, multiple appearance HTC mobile phone, is coincidence or another reason? Shanghai Lian Tong: Cos is a set of operating systems, eventually mounted on different terminals. In the process of research and development, we and many terminal manufacturers have had exchanges, including Nokia, Lenovo, HTC, ZTE, Cool faction, the sky language, TCL, Konka and so on. There are also manufacturers in their existing hardware platform suitable for the Cos. Cos for all the terminal manufacturers open, but also welcome each terminal manufacturer in their own platform to adapt, test, evaluation cos, the introduction of COS products, we believe there will be a lot of terminal manufacturers to introduce COS products. But the first is who, this is not by COS company to decide. Question three: can introduce Shanghai Lian Tong Company set up background? What is the responsibility for the COS system development? How is the division of labor with CAS? Shanghai Lian Tong: Shanghai Union Tong was founded in 2012, is a state-owned holdings, focusing on operating system development software enterprises. The Chinese Academy of Sciences Software is one of the initiators of Shanghai Lian Tong, and one of the shareholders. COS is a set of operating systems. including desktop (PC), mobile phone, TV/set-top box, and other different terminal versions. The Chinese Academy of Sciences is responsible for the design of COS overall architecture, desktop version, and open source system construction and management. Tong Company is responsible for the Cos of the mobile phone, television and other versions of the development, as well as the commercial operation of the Cos.PC side, cos of the basic version by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Software led by the research and development, and provided to various domestic manufacturers for commercial customization and use of promotion, the specific mode of business promotion by the manufacturer to decide. COS will provide technical support. Government Procurement, PC OEM, etc. are possible future business models, the specific business model depends on the needs of national strategy and market needs. Question four: Cos system claims to have 100,000 applications online, when did these applications begin to develop? Shanghai Lian Tong: from the Union Tong Company was established, it is committed to the application of COS development. Cos of the original application types are not many. Most of the applications in the market are based on Java at present. Cos a partner has developed a Java virtual machine that enables Java applications to run on the Cos via virtual machines. Cos Welcome to the application developers of Cos to porting their Java applications to the Cos platform, but also hope that the COS application developers can develop more and better native applications through the COS SDK. Question five: Cos system has applied for national research funds? Shanghai Lian Tong: Shanghai Lian Tong for the state-owned holding company, the current research and development funds are independent research and Development Fund. Question six: Cos in the research and development, which experts have assessed and identified, their basis is what, the principles and rules of the certification? Shanghai Lian Tong: Cos for the Chinese Academy of Sciences to lead the software research and development. Question seven: Cos system in the future what market promotion plan? How to compete with Android and iOS systems? Shanghai Lian Tong: Cos is open source operating system, free to all willing to use COS manufacturers open. We have a set of marketing strategy, we also need to support and cooperate with partners. Mobile terminals, PCs, set-top boxes are in progress, different terminals of the ecological environment are not the same, COS will be based on the characteristics of the ecological environment targeted deployment and promotion. COS needs the cooperation of the terminal manufacturer. In general, it is the terminal manufacturer that integrates the operating system into the end product. At the mobile end, the cooperation of terminal manufacturers is particularly important, different manufacturers of hardware platforms, user interfaces are not the same, the demand for the market and operations are not the same, so the need and end manufacturers to jointly develop development strategies. Cos has been and a lot of domestic terminal manufacturers have a full exchange and communication, I believe that in the near future, there will be domestic terminal manufacturers to introduce COS products.