Movistar

Movistar challenges Apple and Android by developing an own mobile operating system

Published on Feb. 29, 2012

Por Luis Jar Santorum | Tags: Qualcom, Mozilla, Telefónica, Movistar, Telecommunications, Adobe, Smartphones

The telecommunications operator allies with Mozilla, Qualcom and Adobe to develop a new web-based mobile ecosystem.

With this alliance, Movistar wants to create a new and free alternative mobile ecosystem that could compete with the largest operating systems in control of the market nowadays: IOS (Apple’s iPhone and iPad), Android (Google) and Windows 8 (Microsoft).

The new ecosystem, developed by Movistar’s partners, is open and standard-technology based such as HTML5 language, so it could take advantage of the thousands of developments and applications already on the Internet.

One of the advantages of the alliance is that Telefónica I+D (now integrated in Telefónica Digital) and Adobe were already working together since they discovered the similarities of their projects ...