Red Violet OS
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| Red Violet OS 3 on an Elgee A3. | |
| Developer | The Red Violet Project |
| Type | Mobile operating system |
| Date released | 5120:4:28 (version 1.0) |
| Current (stable) version | OS 2.2.4 |
| Current development version | OS 3.0 |
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Red Violet OS is an mobile operating system developed by The Red Violet Project, which is a consortium of Secosan and Silverish tech companies.
History[]
Before Red Violet OS[]
In the mid-5110s, smartphones from Earth became very popular. Many people, including the Novas themselves, liked the new devices so much that they began to exceed the sales of Secosan cellphones, which at the time were nothing more than a basic dialer. A popular app that Secosans installed onto their phones was an app called Red Violet, which was an app that allowed these Earth phones to connect to the Secosan INTERWEB.
Development[]
Red Violet OS beta. Version 0.9.6, dated 5119:17:8
Red Violet OS was originally called Osen OS during development, taking its name from Queen Osenerille Nova, who commissioned the project. Development began in mid 5116, and it was originally based on an Android Lolipop kernel. Seneva, a company in Silverio World who produces Android phones, provided the firmware on behalf of Google. There is very little info on the early builds of Osen OS, though rumors state it was a heavily modified version of Android Lollipop. The alpha was released in mid 5118. Midway through the alpha, Elgee, Moderna and Parwolsonic, the Secosan participants, as well as Delta, Seneva, and MLC, formed a partnership called The Red Violet Project. The first beta, version 0.5, was released in late 5119. This was the last version to use the modified Android kernel. That's because something happened the following year...
Apple's debut in the Secosa Supernova changes everything[]
In early 5120, Apple released the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max in the Secosa Supernova. There were massive sales of the new devices, and Apple opened a store inside Q2 Ristow to sell them. As a result, Red Violet OS, now limited by an inferior interface and inferior apps, had to make a decision: copy Apple and succeed, or copy Google and fail? At this point, Elgee was planning to manufacture the first phone to use Red Violet, so the decision had to be made right away. Red Violet chose to copy Apple, and as a result, the UI had to be changed to match iOS' look and feel.