Indus OS is second most popular in India: Counterpoint Market Research

MUMBAI: Conceptualized, developed and designed in India, World’s First Regional Operating System, Indus OS has overtaken global giants such as iOS, Windows and Cyanogen to emerge as the second most popular OS in India.

As per Counterpoint Market Research’s press release, Q1 FY 2016-17 saw a total of 24.8 million smartphone devices sold in India, of which 1.4 million devices were powered by Indus OS. The indigenous operating system is currently available in 12 Indian languages, adding close to half million OS activations every month, and growing at a whopping 150%; the company expects to double this number within 6 months.

The Indus OS is built on Android and currently supports 12 major languages spoken widely in the region. Indus OS’ vision is to digitally connect the next 1 billion people in the emerging markets. Indus OS recently raised $5 million series A funding led by Omidyar Network and angel funded by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal from Snapdeal, Amit Gupta and Naveen Tiwari from Inmobi and Pranay Chulet from Quikr.

Commenting on the research, Rakesh Deshmukh, CEO, Indus OS, said, “At Indus OS, our aim is to place the power of mobile technology into the hands of the next emerging billion. We have seen an overwhelming response so far – we expect to be on one in every six devices sold in India by 2017, with a total of 100 million customers by 2018.”