Tech war against Google and Apple, China announced its mobile operating system code-named “COS “China operating system for smartphones a...
Tech war against Google
and Apple, China announced its mobile operating system code-named “COS “China
operating system for smartphones and tablets.
According to Sina news
reported, “The state-approved and state -funded operating system was developed
jointly by China Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and
Shanghai Liantong network communication technology.”
COS is similar to Linux
and serves as the operating platform for PCs, smartphones , tablets and set
-top boxes, as well as the support of HTML5 applications. However, for security
reasons, “COS isn’t an open source system. There are some security
issues with open source operating systems, including Ubuntu and Android, where
hidden security vulnerabilities that make easy to manage personal devices, the
report added. In addition, foreign companies launched , this open- source
platform also failed to acclimatize to the Chinese market through a lot of
aspects , including the user interface , input method , speech recognition,
cloud service stability, application downloads , and support for , among other
things, said the director of the ISCAS.
