Nothing is contemplating the event of its personal cell working system, in keeping with CEO and founder Carl Pei. The UK startup’s handsets at present run on Google’s Android working system, with a customized interface operating on high. Most smartphones as we speak run on Android, whereas Apple’s iPhone fashions run on iOS, the corporate’s cell OS. Developers providing entry to fashionable apps on Android and iOS by way of the Play Store and App Store, respectively, whereas Huawei’s HarmonyOS is making an attempt to current a 3rd different, and Nothing might finally be a part of the fray.
Nothing Considering Development of Its Own Mobile Operating System
During a dialogue with Brian Heater at TechCrunch Disrupt, Pei stated that the corporate is exploring the event of a brand new working system to create a brand new income stream for the corporate, whereas additional establishing the startup within the cell business. “We’re thinking about how we manoeuvre here, and maybe create something of our own. Some kind of operating system,” he stated.
The co-founder and former CEO of OnePlus additionally acknowledged that such an working system would come with assist for synthetic intelligence (AI) function, however it could not be the “be-all and end-all”. Both Google and Apple have closely invested in options powered by machine studying and synthetic intelligence for his or her newest working system updates.
If Nothing have been to construct its personal OS, the corporate would deal with enhancing the consumer expertise, benefiting from all the data out there on gadgets to supply a greater expertise, in keeping with Pei. He stated that the corporate might work on the mission even within the absence of funding, and didn’t remark when Heater requested whether or not Nothing deliberate to boost funds to create its personal working system.
Pei’s firm is not the primary to contemplate the event of an working system to problem market leaders Google and Apple. Huawei has changed Android on a few of its gadgets with its personal working system referred to as HarmonyOS, which gives entry to fashionable apps by way of the Huawei AppGallery.
In order to efficiently compete with Android and iOS, Nothing would want to supply an analogous app market and persuade builders to supply its apps on that platform. The lack of entry to fashionable apps is broadly believed to be one of many causes cell working techniques like Windows Phone or Sailfish OS didn’t compete with Android and iOS.
Nothing beforehand introduced that its upcoming software program updates for its smartphones shall be based mostly on Android — this consists of the Nothing OS 3.0 replace, which is predicated on Android 15. If it does develop a brand new cell OS, it’s prone to arrive on a brand new smartphone that’s optimised to work with the corporate’s software program, which means that it might be a number of months till we see a brand new handset with a brand new working system developed by Nothing.
