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Google's China Rival To Create Android-Like OS
Stoobalou writes "Google's biggest search rival in China — homegrown market leader Baidu, is to develop a Linux-based smartphone to rival the Californian search giant's Android-based devices."
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So, what they're really saying is they'll be releasing an Android copy.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
You surely mean counterfeit, right?
It'll probably have radium and cyanide and melamine in it too..
I for one welcome our Chinese Android Overlords.
What's the point? It would be so much easier to just use android and set Baidu as the search engine (since I'm sure that's the motivation behind this).
I bet China's Android consumers get 2.1 before AT&T refugees like myself do
If it runs the same apps the droid runs it could be quite a brilliant outcome for both.
Hope is the currency of fools
Baidu looks suspiciously like Bada, another mobile Linux-based OS in development by the Korean conglomerate Samsung. Maybe they'll adopt that?
uhm. Isn't that the entire idea behind Open Source?
Why wouldn't they be allowed to take the Android source code and make their own OS out of it?
As a matter of fact they can collaborate with Google on this... If I'm not mistaken it's called a "Community" which consists of "Collaborators".
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Just goes to show good ideas get recycled and repackaged. In the end, the competition is good for consumers. More competition forces all of them to innovate, so it can't be bad.
Loaded up the comments for this news report to see if anyone knew anything about the phone and was confronted with a page of comments of downright racism. I feel quite ashamed all of a sudden.
Like Android but with Built in filters and state spy-ware. Fun.
Whoever loses, we win.
Now the heoric and hard working Chinese workers and peasents will no longer have to be exploited by the running dog capitalists at Google! See how the benevolant state cares for it's people?
More like partner. Google doesn't like rivals any more than Microsoft does. If they don't break them, they will buy them.
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No more marketplace access - but maybe that is there goal.
There is vanishingly little innovation in Chinese industry. A good portion is just manufacturing companies, that build what other companies request. You come in with designs, specs, and parts, they turn those in to the finished product. A good portion of the remainder is devoted to ripping off products that others make. They copy what parts of the design the can and produce clones. Sometimes said clones are just cheap knockoffs not sold as the real things, other times they try and pass off the whole thing as real. Happens with Cisco products all the time.
There just aren't many companies developing new products. They aren't in the market of creativity, just mass production.
Thus, pretty reasonable to guess that what will happen here is that they'll grab Andriod, being open source and all that, replace logos and the search engine, set it to Chinese and call it good. A rip off, not even a derivative.
It would be really funny if they allowed AdMob ads. Then a censored Chinese search giant would be more open than Apple. To the fanboys: It's a joke.
You mean they're going to release a phone that doesn't have commercial lock-ins and a properly open source OS? Damn those commies to hell!
:)
Seriously, I've been trying to find an open source *nix phone where you don't have to void the warranty to use it. If the Chinese make a decent one then I'll be buying it. Capitalism at its best people, Communists are allowed to play by Capitalist rules if they want to.
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It's Bring search, you plick!
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It sucks you got modded down. I laughed.
Don't forget that Huawei once copied Cisco's IOS including documentation, via stolen source code.
I wouldn't expect anything different from Baidu
Who'll want to create apps for it?
Google is most certainly in bed with the US government.. they don't filter (we assume) but they have snooped WIFI, and they work with NASA.. that's what's out in the public.. but I wold think the relationship is deeper than that..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
Yeah they are great in copying. Now with Android being a Open Source so easy to copy.
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TaikOS?
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"revealed plans to launch a Linux-based mobile OS in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last year."
Are there any news sites that compile profiles and use articles more like change logs? While I'm making requests. A site for multidimensional debates, that lets you see different sources of facts and debate of their effects around them.
While China-bashing is really popular these days, I wouldn't be so quick to say "they'll just copy Android". There are a LOT of phones in China that run Linux. Most of the Linux distributions used are homegrown by the manufacturer and have little consistency between them. I wouldn't be surprised if Baidu just bought one of the dev teams from a phone manufacturer and had them slap "Baidu" all over everything.
It would be a Good Thing if they could get it used phones from multiple manufacturers - there might be some hope of writing an app that would run on more than one brand of phone!
I know the common Net-tard line is that the US makes nothing, however that's not just wrong, it is the opposite of right. The US produces more manufactured good than any other nation, including China. Now if China continues growing as it has, that will change in about 2020, then the US will be #2.
Also, a good deal of what the US produces it works to create too. Take things like, say, Intel CPUs. Most of them are made in the US. They do have a few overseas fabs, one in Ireland, one or two in Israel, but most of them are in the US, including their advanced 32nm and 45nm fabs. Of course they aren't just fabbing the chips other design, no they are designing the chips the make. Creativity AND production.
Also the amount of things made in China is a tad misleading given that the "made in" stamp goes to the country that assembled the final unit, not the source of components. You may find an MP3 player "made in china" with a processor and DAC from the US, capacitors from Japan, a display from Korea and so on. The unit may have been put together in China, but of a foreign design and using foreign parts.
So sorry, but if you want to hate on the US economy you'll have to find reasons other than manufacturing because the US makes tons of shit. If you are not aware of that fact that shows only your own ignorance of the situation.
I don't look at anecdotes, I look at data.
http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1010305.shtml
You mean they're going to release a phone that doesn't have commercial lock-ins and a properly open source OS? Damn those commies to hell! Seriously, I've been trying to find an open source *nix phone where you don't have to void the warranty to use it. If the Chinese make a decent one then I'll be buying it. Capitalism at its best people, Communists are allowed to play by Capitalist rules if they want to. :)
They even get to add a Chinese version of the new eFuse to keep you from messing with their new Smart Phones.