Reply to post: Good luck with that

Sin COS to tan Windows? Chinese operating system to debut in autumn – report

hammarbtyp

Good luck with that

An OS is nothing without the application support. Applications will not be ported unless there is a big enough use base to make it worthwhile.

While simple maths suggests billions of Chinese and mandated government support will guarantee a large enough userbase, I think in practice they will find it a lot harder to ensure enough applications are available to make the OS viable.

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