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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. Wait, this is coming from China right? by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, what they're really saying is they'll be releasing an Android copy.

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    1. Re:Wait, this is coming from China right? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      In fact, they just plan on peeling off the sticker.

    2. Re:Wait, this is coming from China right? by butterflysrage · · Score: 3, Funny

      but is it censored? :)

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    3. 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.

  2. Jealous, Comerade by mark72005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet China's Android consumers get 2.1 before AT&T refugees like myself do

  3. Re:Rival? by mark72005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it will be for sale on a website named something like "yoyophones23.com" for $19.99 (allow 4 weeks for shipping)

  4. 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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  5. Re:This is China, yes it will by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A good portion is just manufacturing companies

    Those silly Chinese. Basing their economy on manufacturing.

    They should be basing their economy on credit default swaps and subprime mortgages.

  6. Re:The US still manufactures more than they do by thejynxed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And you're ignorant of the situation to still think that the USA still makes tons of shit, when most of it is in fact, manufactured in Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, etc, shipped to China for final assembly, and then brought back to the USA.

    If your version of things was true, Ohio, PA, and basically any and every other state/commonwealth that relied on manufacturing wouldn't be struggling so much because 90% or more of their manufacturing base is gone.

    Have you actually BEEN to Detroit, Lansing, or ANY of the other manufacturing cities in Michigan lately?

    What the fuck is wrong with your brain?

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