Mobile phone has gradually evolved itself from luxury to necessity and today a person has a mobile phone as he used to have a pen in his pocket a couple of years back. Ironically, today a person can forget his pen but he is not ready to part with his mobile.
But with the boom in the mobile phone industry and the emergence of smart phones in the scenario, a new problem is pinching the mobile phone manufacturers’ soft spot.
The indulgence of multiple operating systems in the mobile phone industry is giving the manufacturers sleeless nights. As Tony Cripps, a senior analyst with Ovum in London said:
There are too many operating systems already and more are coming on stream, making things complicated for smaller software companies.
Multiple operating systems makes it expensive to make software and it is a situation that has hampered the growth of new services. Most mobile phone manufacturers have an internally developed software that runs their simpler phones, but as far as the smart phones are concerned, which are high-end devices that can usually access the Internet and send e-mail, they rely on operating systems created by other companies.
Multiple operating systems is also time consuming and costly for the operators, which must configure the phones they sell. Vodafone has already taken a step in this regard last November by putting a limit to the number of operating systems, declaring that it would eventually sell phones that run only on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60 and Linux.
This issue is not taking a backseat till the manufacturers and operators come to a logical solution because it is nearly impossible for a convergence of the operating systems in immediate future.
Via: iht
