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China's Tencent Launches Smart Hardware OS To Rival Alibaba
An anonymous reader writes: Chinese internet and media giant Tencent Holdings has today launched an operating system for mobile devices such as internet-connected phones, TVs, smartwatches and other IoT products. Tencent Operating System (OS) TOS+ is open to all developers and manufacturers free of charge should they agree to share their revenue – a framework similar to Google's popular Android mobile OS. The new Tencent OS offering, which provides voice recognition and mobile payment systems, will rival other home-grown operating systems looking to conquer the smart hardware arena with connected wearables, TVs and smart homeware technology. These competitors include smartphone maker Xiaomi and Asia's largest internet company Alibaba, who hopes to see its recently launched Yun OS eventually installed on tens of millions of smartphones. The Chinese systems for mobile and hardware products provide an alternative to Google's services, which constantly face challenges across the country due to strict censorship and licensing laws.
for fiddycent OS.
we need go to China . :)
Probably very good.
We don't make anything here anymore. And we have forgotten how.
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BMO
I mean, if I can avoid it, as "share revenue" really means, "sharing with China your company's trade secrets, code, prototype designs, and inside information via the backdoor passwords, sniffers, loggers, and whatever else is bundled with their new OS".
Probably logs everything you do with it and sends it directly to the government for analysis, and probably has censorship hardcoded right into it.
Someone else asked 'any chance of it being available in North America'; why would you want it? Aren't we surveilled enough here already? You want the Chinese government knowing everything you do with your mobile device? Are you nuts?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
How is it "free of charge" if you have to share revenue? This summary reads like a press release.
Android is free and open source. You don't have to share anything with Google if you don't want to. How is TOS+ anything like that? It doesn't seem to be open source.
Why does China use American computer chips in its super computers?
Citation? I Think you have your facts wrong
Er... Tinahe-2 uses Xeon processors and Xeon Phi coprocessors.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
Microsoft could have owned mobile space way back in the 1980s if they had promoted the TRON real-time operating system, instead of joiing the TRON consortium and then acting to have it suppressed through the use of legislation in Washington.
"Microsoft's decision to join the T-Engine Forum is not without irony. The company was the main beneficiary of U.S. government actions against the TRON project in 1989" ref
Microsoft vs. Historical Fact
Oops....well, the frontend uses Chinese-built CPUs...
>stealing technology
>china is "guilty" of this "crime"
The entire Industrial Revolution in the States was because people stole "intellectual property" from England. Samuel Slater, and the rest of the gang up and down the Blackstone River got all their tech from England.
And it's hailed as an achievement here in the US.
Somehow it's bad when someone else does it.
>Calling the F35 good technology
No, no it is not. It is a boat anchor. A very very expensive boat anchor. It's the exact same thing that happened with the F111 at the demands of Robert McNamara but /worse/. A jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none-but-with-vtol and maintenance nightmares.
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BMO
Man, we've got a rapper who could make *five* of those!