As Apple Macs become more widely used in China, with market share currently around 15 percent, the Chinese Communist Party is pushing the homegrown ‘openKylin’ OS over macOS Microsoft’s ever-putrid Windows.
Che Pan for the South China Morning Post:
China has created an open platform to accelerate the development of a home-grown desktop operating system, in its latest effort to shake off the country’s reliance on foreign systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple’s macOS.
Kylinsoft, a subsidiary of state-owned China Electronics Corp, last week joined forces with more than 10 Chinese entities, including the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Centre, to set up an open-source code community.
Named “openKylin”, it allows programmers to publish and share computer codes related to the Kylin operating system.
Kylin was originally developed by the National University of Defence Technology of the People’s Liberation Army, which has been licensing Kylinsoft for commercial applications since 2014.
However, those attempts have yet to result in any Chinese system capable of rivaling Microsoft Windows, which leads the market with an 85 per cent share in mainland China… or Apple’s macOS, which has become more widely used over the years, riding on the popularity of iMacs and MacBooks, holds a share of around 15 per cent.
MacDailyNews Take: That Chinese Communist Party is always pushing something.
China’s openKylin. The operating system that tracks your every move.
China’s openKylin achieves the impossible: it makes Google and Facebook look good on privacy.
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who would want to use a CCP OS. I imagine security is a top priority, security for the state that is
I’m sure putrid Mr ApplBS is a putrid Windows user somewhere in his life, and would openly welcome openKylin, where the CCP is openly Kyllin’ your privacy and openly Kyllin political opponents.
The Kylin-fields of China are VAST.
Kylin’ me softly with your love, kylin’ me softly, with your love, kylin’ me softly, oh, oh, oh , oh , oh oh oh oh oh oh.
Time for Apple to get the hell out of there.
Enough is enough. Stop supporting this Dictatorship.
Amen. Says it ALL…
As long the American Pork industry is controlled by China Apple can’t leave.
Normally, the marketing director that decided on such a product (company) name would at least be defined as an idiot, or fired. But, this is Chna…where the tag fits—esp in western Chna.
It’s China. They don’t need or care to cater to English-language sensibilities.
I prefer Red Star OS
Anything named “Open Killing” isn’t gonna do well 😂
Has to be one idiot in the crowd. That would be you.
Other than the fact that your ignorance is insurmountable, there is one other reason American Marxists like you hate Trump; he tried to reign your anti-American buddies in and scored high on the Conservative Reviews list of Constitutional actions. In other words, he took appropriate action significantly more than not. Which is way too much for your statist sensibilities.