<story><title>KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/kaios-takes-on-the-apple-android-mobile-duopoly</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>A non-paywall writeup:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;kaios-may-succeed-where-android-go-edition-has-failed&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;kaios-may-succeed-w...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It also has received significant investment from Google, and in most cases, Assistant and other Google applications are preinstalled.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Great; so it&amp;#x27;s not an indie up-and-comer, so much as Google taking a sideways approach to capture emerging markets.</text></comment>
<story><title>KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/kaios-takes-on-the-apple-android-mobile-duopoly</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>I want to try out&amp;#x2F;run KDE Plasma Mobile, but so far the only supporter devices are the Nexus 5 (which you can get new-old stock off eBay for &amp;lt;$100) and potentially the Purism 5 when it comes out.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully PostmarketOSs work can bring it to more devices.&lt;p&gt;Can any of these KaiOS devices be purchases cheaply in the US? I wonder if the company has added telemetry or other spying related stuff on top of the old FirefoxOS base.  Even if they have, it will be good to have another option if it becomes more popular.</text></comment>