Chinese IT Ministry Looks Askance At Google's Control of Android

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 5, 2013 @04:29AM from the derives-from-a-mandate-from-the-masses dept.

itwbennett writes "In what one expert is calling a clear message to China's tech industry that the authorities want to support a homegrown mobile operating system, China's tech regulator warns in a white paper that the country is becoming too dependent on Google's Android OS. 'Our country's mobile operating system research and development is heavily reliant on Android,' reads the white paper from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. 'Although the Android system currently remains open source, the core technologies and technology roadmap is strictly controlled by Google.'"

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Centralized government to Google by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-05 04:34 · Score: 5, Interesting

Pot, kettle, black.
I had to loook it up... by ArcadeNut · 2013-03-05 05:08 · Score: 4, Interesting

Definition of ASKANCE
1: with a side-glance : obliquely
2: with disapproval or distrust : scornfully
Guess that's the word of the day...

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