Indus OS – a mobile phone operating system built in India – has become the country’s second-most popular smartphone platform, surpassing Apple’s iOS.
That looks interesting.
Now, it’s not exactly a new operating system built from scratch, but the developers have tweaked the Android platform to meet the unique demands and culture of India.
Oh.
I bought my Nexus 5 in India. The only Indian language it supports is Hindi. No Bengali (83 million speakers), No Telugu (75 million), No Tamil (70 million). Given the big number of people that Google employs in India, it’s quite bizarre that they never bothered to translate Android to more local languages. (Your average old Nokia dump-phone is/was available in just about any local language).
Thom, why “Oh”? That’s the power of Free Software, you change it to meet your own needs. In this case, the needs of hundreds of million of people, and that’s a good thing.
The “Oh” was because this isn’t an interesting new operating system, but just a tweaked Android. A good thing, but not interesting (for Thom)
It is like there is a new Desktop Operating System that is now the 2nd most used, behind Windows 7 but in front of Windows XP…it is Windows 10….”Oh”