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Google's China Rival To Create Android-Like OS

Posted by timothy on from the open-source-is-a-nice-start dept.

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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  1. Re:Why? by grub · · Score: 4, Interesting


    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).

    Nah. Imagine a repressive government having control of the OS in your phone. Could you trust that your phone isn't reporting its location behind your back? (iPhone does but that is anonymous and can be disabled)

    There are so many nefarious things that could be done my tinfoil had needs another layer.

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  2. Re:Wait, this is coming from China right? by sdguero · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously.

    I actually work with Baidu to collect marketing metrics. Google, Yahoo, and Bing all have API access setup so clients can access reports anytime via a SOAP request. Baidu? You have to actually talk to a person in China on the phone and ask for a report which they then send you manually every day. God knows if the data is legit, and there is no availability on weekends or holidays (which it turns out, China has a LOT of).

    I don't really see how they are going to develop their own mobile OS unless its a direct copy of Android.