Google and China strife isn’t seeing any chances of coming to some settlement and now this news should not come as surprise to anybody. Google has decided to postpone the launch of its phone in China as its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mailing reaches no conclusion.
An anonymous company spokesman said “ It would not be a good experience for consumers to receive a phone right now with its applications.” However Marsha Wang, a spokeswoman for Google Inc., only stated that the planned Wednesday ceremony with local carrier China Unicom Ltd. was delayed for some time in future.
China has the world’s most-populous mobile phone market with more than 700 million accounts and increasingly affluent customers who are always ready to pay for the latest technology and services. For Google who has just stepped into the smartphone industry, the current situation may pose a serious threat to its business in the country. Also under adverse circumstances, Google search which has a potential market share at present, will loose on to world’s biggest Internet market by users.
So what will be the final effect? Android that was launched a year ago has already been adopted by China Mobile’s OPhone and Dell’s Mini 3. But will the open mobile OS hold on its place in the Chinese market? The story has real interesting twists and turns and the final result will be surprising and divisive.
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