Mobile carriers sick of so many operating systems

Two operating systems run more than 95 percent of the world's computers, but dozens of systems are behind the 2.5 billion mobile phones in circulation, a situation that has hampered the growth of new services, industry executives and independent specialists say. C/net reports.

"... Having so many operating systems makes it expensive to make software, said Faraz Hoodbhoy, the chief executive of PixSense, whose software helps users of camera phones save and share multimedia content.

"It's not like with computers, where anybody who has an Internet connection can download your software," he said. "The barrier to innovation is higher in the mobile world."

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