Comments on: Android in China– No Google here

By: windsorr

windsorr — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:01:34 +0000

Tizen!?!….belive that when I see it…only Samsung gets upset when I question its viability……

By: windsorr

windsorr — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:00:52 +0000

It is a turn of phrase….Google is already pretty much blocked, banned etc etc from China. Its more about what happens when the Chinese maret gets a a bit more sophisticated than it is now. Right now its “give me th ebiggest screen at the lowest cost and I dont care aout anything else”, Whenthat changes then the Chinese Google-like servoces might start to get some real traction in mobile….

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:20:59 +0000

What do you mean by “Out goes Google in comes Baidu.”? For most Android handsets sold in China, “out went Google” already. Search, mail, maps…. are all add-on apps onto open source “Android” kernel and they have already been replaced by home grown Chinese versions, without having to fork Android itself. Chinese government and tech companies may want an Android alternative, just in case Google cuts off their access to future versions of Android, but even the existing state of Android in China must be pretty useless for Google in financial terms, so these other mobile OS alternatives is not a new threat for it. I don’t think Google will shed any tears if Chinese handset makers stop piggy backing on its development efforts. It does not get any money from their customers in any case.

The only risk lies in one of those new OS’s becoming popular and strong enough in markets where Android is actually bringing in revenue from Google. Of course, that is more likely to happen and more likely to prove an existential threat if Samsung starts pushing Tizen in large numbers.