Operating System
The Importance of Choosing the Right Operating System (OS)
The sales of your software products depend on the user base of the OS they run on. Therefore, you must not only strive to develop high-quality software but also choose the right OS platform for your products.
If your software is built for an OS with a small user base, the potential sales of your product will be significantly restricted.
Launching Your Own OS
If mere success in software application markets doesn’t satisfy you, you might consider developing your own OS to challenge the current giant. However, winning the OS battle will be the toughest challenge you’ll face, as the stakes are extremely high and your formidable competitor will stop at nothing to defeat you.
The interface process of developing an operating system is similar to that of creating a software product, as described in this guide. The technologies related to operating systems can be viewed in the Software Guide, as shown below.
Viewing Information of Operating Systems
You can view the information of an operating system from the Software report.
Overall Rating of OS product
As you are well aware that in Capitalism Lab the overall quality of a product is typically affected by its quality, its brand, its price. For an OS product, besides these 3 factors, there is an extra factor called Apps Availability rating that affects an OS product’s overall rating.
The Apps Availability rating can be viewed on the Software report, as shown in the above screenshot.
It indicates whether there are enough application software available for this OS. This rating is calculated based on the variety of the software applications available for this OS and their quality ratings.