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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 02:59 AM EDT |
I'm thinking back to when MS made a loud complaining noise about the
piracy of Windows OS and Office in China. The visible official response
at the time was a waving of Red Flag Linux, the implication being that
whatever happened MS wouldn't get traditional business from China.
Fast forward, now Red Flag has faded away to almost invisible and
everybody else uses a zero or low cost chinese version of Windows XP.
What happened? Were MS paid off? Did they just decide it was a lost cause?
I'm not suggesting Google should do the same, the two company's
business ethics are so different we should expect a different result.
Google's official response thus far is about compatibility, they don't
want a fork of Android that won't cleanly run the Google apps suite.
But many of Google's apps are blocked from essential server access
from within China. So the fork has happened outside of Android.
Acer's dilemma now is, do they need that Chinese Aliyun market
so much they can afford to drop out of the OHA, call their non-Aliyun
devices something not Android and alienate their non-Chinese customers.
Oh, and now they've been tipped off they'd be wise not to pre-load
any stolen apps. And the rest of us should just settle back and not
waste our breath moaning about the pirate app stores in China.
I don't see much we can do about that.
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- Hmmmmm - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 11:43 AM EDT
- Hmmmmm - Authored by: symbolset on Sunday, September 16 2012 @ 04:37 PM EDT
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