COS (operating system) the smart phone market when COS was introduced and Apple most of the remaining market share. COS looks very similar to Android and has its own Application Portal much like Android Market and iOS App Store. The Linux kernel is GPLv2 and the COS framework is closed source and licensed by the originators. The COS Core operating system is based on the Linux kernel and can be seen as a Linux distribution, in the same way as the Android operating system. According to the official statements, COS supports HTML5 based applications and Java based applications. COS (operating system) COS is
Usage share of desktop operating systems Usage share of desktop operating systems The usage share of desktop operating systems is the percentage of the operating systems (OS) used in computers (approximately market share) with so-called (retronym) desktop operating system, that also run on e.g. laptops. Originally the only computers running those operating systems, where desktop computers, while with the introduction of so-called new class of mobile operating systems, desktop got to be the part of the name of the former class of OSes. The computers running these OSes have the desktop metaphor style of GUI, unlike the mobile OSes. See also usage share of operating systems