AphyOS - A New Smartphone Operating System
 | Author:
Victor Sample
Vic Sample: MT43 News Treasurer |
AphyOS - A New Smartphone Operating System Victor Sample Marketing companies and search engine companies like Google (the creator of the Android operating system) have always made money by tracking what you do on your computing devices: PCs, Laptops, Tablets and Smartphones. I recently wrote an article about “ID Smuggling” – tracking what you are doing on the internet – that quoted a director of a research group as saying that stopping internet privacy invasion is like playing whack-a-mole: as soon as you prevent one way of privacy invasion another pops up.
Apostrophey AG, a Swiss software company founded by mobile phone industry veterans, is unveiling a new smartphone operating system that has an emphasis on privacy. It works by segregating apps to prevent tracking of user behavior. The founders of Apostrophey AG have appointed Steve Cistulli as CEO. Cistulli has over 25 years of experience in the software industry.
Smartphone operating systems are dominated by Apple (IOS on the iPhone) and Google (Android on most other smartphones). AphyOS – the new operating system – will not be free. Apostrophey AG intends to charge a subscription fee for its combination of software and services.
AphyOS was created from an open-source version of the Android operating system. So it will function much as Android does. In fact, the AphyOS system will run apps created for Android. However, the new operating system will not include or support Google’s Mobile Services or the Play Store.
Of course, Apostrophey AG is not the first company to try to get into the Smartphone Operating system alongside Apple and Google. Microsoft (the windows phone), Samsung, HP and Mozilla have all tried and failed to compete with Apple and Google.
Privacy on the internet is a concern to everyone and it can only be good that companies like Apostrophey are trying to address making privacy a priority. It remains to be seen if they can successfully compete with the established giants of the industry.
