I have been blogging that market cannot sustain fragmentation of the mobile operating systems we have today. Trends show declines of Symbian and BlackBerry leaving the market to triumvirate of Google, Apple and Microsoft. Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce and technology company, obviously disagrees.
WSJ writes: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said Thursday that the first mobile phone using an Alibaba-developed operating system will go on sale in China at the end of the month, kicking off competition with Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Within months, Alibaba Group unit Alibaba Cloud Computing said in a statement, the operating system, Aliyun OS, will be supporting other devices, such as tablets and larger-screen phones
This could be interesting. The Aliyun operating system can be direct competitor to Google Android - free mobile OS. Apple and Microsoft both differentiate by building stronger brand and experience. Google chose another road. Chinese feature phone makers already raided cheap phone market where Nokia used to dominate with S40 operating system. The next obvious target is cheap smart phone market.
WSJ writes: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said Thursday that the first mobile phone using an Alibaba-developed operating system will go on sale in China at the end of the month, kicking off competition with Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Within months, Alibaba Group unit Alibaba Cloud Computing said in a statement, the operating system, Aliyun OS, will be supporting other devices, such as tablets and larger-screen phones
This could be interesting. The Aliyun operating system can be direct competitor to Google Android - free mobile OS. Apple and Microsoft both differentiate by building stronger brand and experience. Google chose another road. Chinese feature phone makers already raided cheap phone market where Nokia used to dominate with S40 operating system. The next obvious target is cheap smart phone market.
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