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Slashdot Asks: Does the World Need a Third Mobile OS?

Posted by msmash on from the in-an-ideal-world dept.

Now that it is evident that Microsoft doesn't see any future with Windows Phone (or Windows 10 Mobile), it has become clear that there is no real, or potential competitor left to fight Android and iOS for a slice of the mobile operating system market. Mozilla tried Firefox OS, but that didn't work out either. BlackBerry's BBOS also couldn't find enough taker. Ideally, the market is more consumer friendly when there are more than one or two dominant forces. Do you think some company, or individual, should attempt to create their own mobile operating system?

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  1. TempleOS by almitydave · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's time for TempleOS Mobile!

    --
    my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their
    I'm, you're, he's/she's/it's, we're, you're, they're
  2. Elon's MuskOS by Spy+Handler · · Score: 5, Funny

    because... why not?

  3. Re:In decades of developing and promoting tech by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 3, Funny

    This customer knows exactly what he wants, in detail, and you deliver it to him exactly as he asked for it, and they don't like it.

    My new girlfriend is just like my mother--looks like her, dresses like her. So I took her home to meet my parents. My father hates her!

    I'll be here all week. Try the veal!

  4. Re:Eventually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    [...] At some point, Apple will do something more dramatically stupid than removing the headphone jack, [...].

    They'll add a coin slot.