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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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iDon't welcome Chinese lording over anything, I like my tech to be free of toxic chemicals and slave labour
probably not even that much effort. They'll probably just stick their own sticker on top, not paying too much attention if the old is completely covered.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
So, GoogleOS:BaiduOS=RedHat:CentOS?
Less RedHat:CentOS, more RedHat:RedFlag.
"GreenMetalMan. Better than Android. GreenDam already installed."
"...they just plan on peeling off the sticker."
Give them some credit. First, they're gonna spend a few million on espionage, after they steal the code and a prototype, they'll trot out a completely re-designed package, Chinese internationalization; and eureka! The People's Phone.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
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.