Talk:Comparison of mobile operating systems

New Criteria: Sharing IP-Adress with US-datacraken
The ip-adress is the mother of tracking. So it is important to know who gets it regularly, steadily .... etc.
 * I think you want the extant row called "Zero knowledge encryption", IP. HLHJ (talk) 22:22, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Ubuntu Touch removed?
Canonical has stopped working on Ubuntu Touch, but it is still being developed by UBPorts - should it be re-added? Mercury1964 (talk) 02:57, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been done, Mercury1964. HLHJ (talk) 21:48, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Plasma Mobile
Anyone thought about adding plasma mobile to the os list - https://plasma-mobile.org
 * Done. PureOS and PostmarketOS also added. HLHJ (talk) 21:49, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Comparision Template
Maybe there should be a comparison template for things like:
 * Comparison of operating systems
 * Comparison of web browsers

Switching the table rows with columna
I'm in the process of switching rows with columns and making the tables sortable. I'm not aware of an easy way to do it so I'll be doing it a table at a time Chris Ssk  talk 16:29, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I think this change will make the page more difficult to read. As some operating systems are discontinued or going to be discontinued in the near term.
 * I'm correcting the page to be in line with other tech related "comparison" pages. They all list the subject in rows and features in columns. It allows the tables to be sortable making it easy for readers to find what systems support a specific feature, and it makes it easy to add/remove a new row
 * Examples:
 * Comparison of operating systems
 * Comparison of web browsers
 * Comparison of web browser engines
 * Comparison of email clients
 * Comparison of instant messaging clients
 * Comparison of feed aggregators
 * Chris Ssk talk 13:07, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * There are way less mobile operating systems than in any these comparisons. That is way transposing the table is going to make it more difficult to read. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.146.35 (talk) 17:46, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Removal of Firefox OS
Firefox OS has been discontinued for a long time. I will remove it unless someone disagrees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.149.106 (talk) 18:10, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the page should be renamed to "Comparison of current mobile operating systems". As it is the page is a comparison of mobile operating systems so it development or not Firefox OS belongs here. Chris Ssk  talk 13:21, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * No, Firefox should not be removed. If we see other comparison pages, such as listed in above section by Chris Ssk, they all include both current as well as discontinued stuff. Also Chris Ssk, no other comparison page is divided into current and discontinued ones. So we should not rename this page to "Comparison of current mobile operating systems". Saying that, we should also add all mobile OS (Current and discontinued) in this list. See Mobile operating system for complete list of mobile os. We can just mention discontinued in brackets ahead of particular OS. Ryanking16 (talk) 16:03, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The problem here is that Firefox OS is not supported anymore, so we are not able to maintain the supported features current. As Firefox OS is unsupported, there are effectively no supported features and we will have to remove all the currently supported features anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.146.35 (talk) 17:44, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Firefox OS is not a mobile operating system anymore as it pivoted to TVs. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/04/mozilla_kills_firefox_os_in_favour_of_connected_devices/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.136.227 (talk) 19:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been succeeded by B2G OS (Mozilla Public License, defunct) and the now-proprietary KaiOS (plus the GerdaOS fork). HLHJ (talk) 22:31, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Very interesting entry, but Amazon (Kindle) Fire is touted as diverse from other Android systems
Amazon Fire should get its own entries. It does not feature native access to Google services, only to Amazon services, as exposed in selling advertisement. The whole column of data for Android should be duplicated with precisions for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet and its variants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.30.56.204 (talk) 15:35, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * You have a point. I'd support this. HLHJ (talk) 22:32, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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Android is a Unix-like OS using a (modified) Linux kernel, but Android isn't a traditional GNU/Linux OS
In the table at the start of the article, Android's OS family is given as Linux. Should the OS family designation be changed from "Linux" to "Unix-like"? Android is described as "Unix-like" in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) The confusion arises because many people (for convenience/shorthand or out of ignorance) refer to Linux as an OS, when it has never been an OS. Traditional "Linux distrubutions" are a combination of GNU, Linux and other items that in combination form the operating system. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.25.65.29 (talk) 04:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Google sometimes states that it isn't Linux, as do others. HLHJ (talk) 22:34, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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Hello. The market shares in reference 1 do not match those in the article. Also 86.1+13.7+0.3 >100. 64.210.21.210 (talk) 07:24, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Cursor iOS
Isn‘t there a cursor on iOS? I mean, when you 3D Touch on the keyboard, you can move to whichever character you want.--2A02:810C:CBC0:457C:402D:3B31:7798:343B (talk) 20:46, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

iOS now supports HEVC / H265
This article would need to be updated as HEVC is supported by iOS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.80.43.212 (talk) 17:53, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

DRM
Is there a reason why the DRM column is 'DRM-free' as opposed to 'DRM-supported', or 'DRM playback enabled'. Is there subsequently a reason for 'red' to indicate 'no' and 'green' to represent 'yes'?

While, for instance, Richard Stallman might oppose DRM for personal political world views about how the world should work, that is not a neutral position. An opposite view might, in theory, be that non-DRM devices lack playback capabilities that DRM devices are capable of. What I'm getting at is that it seems to convey the idea that DRM is 'bad', and while that may well be the case, it does not seem to have a place in a repository of neutral and unbiased information. The objective fact should, in my view, be whether DRM is supported, not whether the device is 'free' of DRM. But I would not support flipping the colours for it would convey the opposite message. This could be best avoided by removing the colour coding all together, and avoiding implications about the 'correctness' of DRM, a hotly contested topic in modern technological discourse. 124.148.241.144 (talk) 13:49, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

KaiOS missing
It has had a higher market share than windows and possibly some of the others for over a year - yet it is missing from the tables, though it is listed underneath. It is still supported. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.249.7.24 (talk) 07:22, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Probably should be added. Go ahead. HLHJ (talk) 22:36, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

"Wireless system updates" row confusing
Does "Yes" mean that the device can update wirelessly? That it forces updates over the wireless network, and the user cannot refuse them (probably not a "Yes" for Ubuntu Touch, then)? The row is confusing and the link does not help. Using the term "Wireless system updates" for permanent manufacturer control over the device seems like marketing obfuscation. Can we have a clearer row title, please? HLHJ (talk) 22:18, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Removal of unsupported operating systems like Windows and Blackberry
As they are not supported anymore there is no way to know if features are supported. I will remove them unless anyone disagrees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.48.185.54 (talk) 10:25, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

About OS
Proposal in edit. Current version datas in such different OS's are not relevant in this comparison, so pushing them a little down. Brainfrogk4mon (talk) 16:39, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

About OS License
Why both proprietary and GPL have the same purple background? Brainfrogk4mon (talk) 10:25, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Mainly the what?
Mainly the GPL? So it's not totally open source? Is some part of the code having restrictions on use or re-use but still open?

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Mainly the what?
Mainly the GPL? So it's not totally open source? Is some part of the code having restrictions on use or re-use but still open?

--2A01:E34:EC12:36C0:246E:A349:D2DC:1B19 (talk) 18:31, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Trademarks as Features?
"Guided Access" is a registered trademark in the US. Should rename the feature generically, or delete the row. 194.28.172.81 (talk) 06:14, 21 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I second this — one of my recent edits to the page actually mentions this in the edit summary. Google refers to this feature on their end as "app pinning" and I've seen it commonly described as "screen pinning" as well. Either of those would work great, and I may change it to that if no one responds to argue otherwise.

ShortTimeNoSee —  Message  ⸻ 03:49, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

What is considered part of Android, as opposed to 3rd party application
Many Android devices, for example, come with Google Lens enabled in their stock camera app. If that ergo means that Google Lens is a feature of Android, Android can then be considered to have the "Optical character recognition input method" feature in the language and input section, near the bottom of the table. If not, does the feature need to be in built into the stock OS (in this case, stock Android)?

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@ 1.47.129.212 (talk) 23:20, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Add Manjaro ARM?
Should it be added to the list? It can be paired with Plasma Mobile and GNOME mobile. Ned Retherbrick (talk) 23:42, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Remove plasma mobile from About OS?
It is an interface rather than a base. Ned Retherbrick (talk) 23:43, 19 June 2024 (UTC)