Nothing Considering Development of Its Own Mobile Operating System
During a discussion with Brian Heater at TechCrunch Disrupt, Pei mentioned 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 trade. “We’re fascinated with how we manoeuvre right here, and perhaps create one thing of our personal. Some form of working system,” he mentioned.
The co-founder and former CEO of OnePlus additionally said that such an working system would come with assist for synthetic intelligence (AI) characteristic, 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 had been to construct its personal OS, the corporate would give attention to enhancing the person expertise, making the most of the entire info accessible on gadgets to supply a greater expertise, in accordance with Pei. He mentioned that the corporate might work on the challenge even within the absence of funding, and didn’t remark when Heater requested whether or not Nothing deliberate to lift funds to create its personal working system.
Pei’s firm is not the primary to think about 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 provides entry to fashionable apps by way of the Huawei AppGallery.
In order to efficiently compete with Android and iOS, Nothing would wish to supply the same app market and persuade builders to supply its apps on that platform. The lack of entry to fashionable apps is extensively believed to be one of many causes cell working programs 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 contains 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.
