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Apple’s New Mobile OS Is All about Ive
The third-largest mobile phone operating system poised to challenge Apple and Google

United States, "Wall Street Journal" reported on May 8, some of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers and telecom operators in the past year will support different mobile operating system, the target is supported by Apple and Google smartphones constitute an effective challenge.

These companies hope that these new operating system can exceed the performance of Microsoft and Blackberry, as the iPhone and Android devices to replace the third alternative platform. iPhone and Android devices currently on the market have almost absolute control.

Huawei, LG Electronics, and ZTE Corporation and other manufacturers supported by several major carriers are being manufactured under the Mozilla Firefox equipped mobile phone operating system, and will be launched this year.

At the same time, the first mobile phone equipped with Tizen will debut in the third quarter. Tizen Samsung Electronics and Intel jointly developed an operating system.

Headquartered in London, Kennon Software Corporation is developing a Linux computer operating system for smart phones version of Ubuntu, beginning in 2014 through the mobile phone operators to launch the software.

Finnish startups Jolla Ltd. Plans to launch later this year, based on the company's patented "Swordfish" (Sailfish) platform for smart phones.

Handset manufacturers and telecom operators that in order to reduce handset prices and subsidies, diversification is required. Some mobile phone manufacturers and telecom operators also fear the market leader Google's dominance is becoming too strong.

However, the report pointed out that any new mobile operating system will be faced with both Google and Apple pioneer funded difficult battle. In order to obtain a large enough market share, third alternative mobile platforms need to get handset manufacturers, operators and application developers support.

Over the years, the world's two largest mobile phone maker ─ ─ Samsung and Nokia are investing in the development of its own operating system, but even if they are in the scale and relationships with carriers are present advantage, still no success, perhaps because they can not attract developers to develop good applications.

Nokia's Symbian and Samsung Bada operating system user unfriendly interface, the browser is running slow, unable to work seamlessly with other devices. Therefore, Nokia finally abandoned Symbian platform in favor of production based on Microsoft Windows. Bada Samsung plans to integrate into Tizen.

According to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) data, last year's global smart phone shipments of 722.4 million, which is equipped with Android and Apple iOS phones accounted for 87.6%, higher than 2011's 68.1%. IDC research director Llamas said that in the short term, these new mobile operating system does not constitute a significant impact on the market. But he believes that in the long perspective, Andrews will feel increasing pressure to launch low-end Apple iPhone, the other operating systems will be ready to grab market share.