So it’s true. Rumors that Russia was contemplating an alternate to Android & iOS were confirmed when the country’s minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforo spoke of plans to the effect. The country plans to build the alternate on open source mobile platform Sailfish. Though Sailfish is from Finland, its open source nature would allow for customized software.
The code war: Russia plans to free itself from iOS and Android – The Guardian
http://news.google.com May 18, 2015
According to Russia’s RBC financial newspaper, the country’s ministry of communications instigated the project to replace Android and iOS, meeting with Finnish deve …
Russia to move away from Android, iOS – The Economic Times
May 19, 2015
IANS: Russia is mulling its own mobile operating system in its stated bid to reduce its dependence on Western technology.
Russian Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforo has announced plans to replace Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms with new software based on Sailfish, an open-source mobile operating system…
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