India to have its own Indigenous Operating System – IndOS
IndOS has been announced by the government for quite a while, here is what all went through the clash between CCI and Google
In wake of digital adoption, India is all set to have its own operating system which is being widely referred to as IndOS by the public. All this quest begins with CCI, the Competition Commission of India filing charges against Google for overexploiting the market of the Android mobile device ecosystem in India.
Almost 97% of smartphone users are using android phones and hence the Competition Commission of India goes ahead to charge a penalty of Rs. 1300 crore and certain other regulations. Amidst all of this, Google claims that doing so will make smartphones in India much more expensive and the proliferation of some unchecked apps.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology once announced to the parliament that the government is planning to create an ecosystem that fosters the introduction of India’s own Operating System.
This step is extremely important to break the duopoly of Android and iOS in the operating system ecosystem. Although its share of Apple in the mobile market is really small there is no third competitor in the market. Android has been maintaining its dominance ever since.
In order to ensure the availability of fair choices to its users, this step will be detrimental to deciding India’s digital adoption. It has been claimed that android users are denied the security that they should be having right after purchasing the device. Google however admits that all those apps downloaded from the play store do not expose the users to unsafe platforms.
India in its indigenous operating system plans to break android’s dominance and provide safer platforms, but the dates for its launch are yet to be out.
