How Open Is Open? The Mobile Open Operating Systems Landscape

Overview

2007 and 2008 brought major changes in the smartphone operating system space. Apple, Google, LiMo, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and Symbian all made major announcements regarding their commercial and open source strategies.

With all of these operating systems available, how do operators, handset vendors, semiconductor manufacturers, application developers, and other ecosystem stakeholders work together to bring compelling, differentiated, high value solutions to market?

"How Open is Open?" explores potential answers to these questions. Starting with a summary of the evolution of mobile operating systems, this whitepaper progresses to describe the current OS landscape, licensing models, segmentation of operating systems, and concludes with opportunities for stakeholders to differentiate.