India’s first home-grown OS takes #2 spot

Indus OS, the Regional Operating System, conceptualized, developed and designed in India, has overtaken global giants such as iOS, Windows and Cyanogen to emerge as the second most popular OS in India. As per Counterpoint Market Research, Q1 FY 2016-17 saw a total of 24.8 million smartphone devices sold in India, of which 1.4 million devices were powered by Indus OS. The indigenous operating system is currently available in 12 Indian languages, adding close-to half million OS activations every month, and growing at a whopping 150 per cent, the company expects to double this number within six months.

Rakesh Deshmukh, CEO, Indus OS, said, “At Indus OS, our aim is to place the power of mobile technology into the hands of the next emerging billion. We have seen an overwhelming response so far – we expect to be on one in every six devices sold in India by 2017, with a total of 100 million customers by  Read more