Former Amazonian, Ashish Agrawal, and now CTO of Micromax says the first forked Android OS smartphones from the company will be available at the end of the financial year. Indian manufacturer Micromax has revealed it has plans to develop yet another forked Android operating system, this time for their own budget-priced devices.
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Following the path of Samsung, Microsoft, the domestic handset maker Micromax is planning to develop its own OS along with services and apps, which runs across different devices including phones, tablets, televisions and wearables.
“We’re excellent with partnerships and we don’t want to reinvent the wheel”, Jain said, while specifying that the company was not breaking away from Android but was working with the globally dominant Android OS to bring a differentiated experience to consumers across all platforms, including wearables. At its core, the operating system will still be Android and that means the developers would be able to port their existing applications on the new OS. After Xiaomi and Samsung, home-brewed phone maker Micromax is next in line. Micromax had earlier signed an exclusivity deal with Cyanogen that prevented OnePlus from offering Cyanogenmod updates to owners of the OnePlus One phone.
It is logical for OEM to have their in-house operating system because it gives them more control over the outcomes. If security lacunae are discovered, the company can quickly patch it up quickly.
Micromax believes that being an Indian company, it’s more closer to the Indian consumers and understands the need of local buyers better than the rivals. However, the name of the new OS is not yet named.
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Micromax has its software development team in Bangalore, with about 75 people acquired from Nokia’s R&D in Beijing and some from Shenzen to support this venture.
