India is looking to break the dominance of Apple's iOS and Google's Android by creating their own operating system. There have been several attempts to topple the two giants, but none have attained desirable results so far.
Two of the biggest operating systems, Google's Android and Apple's iOS, dominate the smartphone market. And the Indian government has decided to change things up.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India's junior Information and Technology (IT) minister, claimed in a recent interview that the government is in talks with IT firms to develop an indigenous operating system (OS), reports World is One News.
“There is no third one. Therefore, in a lot of ways there is tremendous interest in MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) and in the Government of India to even create a new handset operating system. We are talking to people. We are looking at a policy for that," Chandrasekhar told PTI news agency.
According to him, the government is looking f...