Android and iOS will have competition and it will come from the hand of India

The adventure of creating an operating system for mobile phones seems to be the new challenge that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Indian government has set for itself.

Mobile operating systems, Android and iOS, may soon have competition. The Indian government wants to create an alternative of its own and offer it to its inhabitants, although it may not be as easy as they think.

Both Google and Apple know how complicated it is to create an operating system and, above all, get users to bet on it. The experience generated over the years is what has made both Android and iOS great.

The idea of ​​having a new competitor is extremely attractive, but it is still a David against Goliath with a realistic result. The one who has had the idea has been Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of Electronics and Informatics of the Government of India.

What you want to achieve is to have a national alternative to what foreign companies offer, but the change is too drastic to go ahead. First of all, there is the growing expansion of Android and iOS.

Currently both Google and Apple share a market share that integrates millions of devices around the world, the appearance of new software poses a somewhat small threat to these two giants.

Plus, the fact is not only to have your own operating system, developers have to face the challenge of programming applications for this operating system. New software is worth nothing if there are no applications with which to take advantage of it.

Currently there is already a certain fragmentation in terms of application development and that gives rise to exclusive apps for operating systems. The arrival of new software would make this situation even worse.

But assuming that developers are willing to write applications for this new operating system, what would happen to applications like WhatsApp, Telegram and YouTube? And, it is that, there are a large number of services that it is impossible to give up.

At the moment the project of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Indian government is a simple idea, so we will have to be attentive to see how it takes shape and, above all, if it manages to take market share from Android and iOS.

Of course, if its new operating system manages to be standardized within India, it would already be an achievement worthy of admiration. You will have to be patient and keep a close eye on this project that it is very difficult to get ahead.