Well, there's the issue of control. China has also loudly voiced its uncomfort with Android's dominance of the Chinese market. On 22 Mar 2013 17:00, "Evans Ikua" <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
Its not just National pride, its got more to do with strategic considerations.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com>wrote:
Am not saying that this is about Microsoft @Dennis. Am saying that Microsoft would not want to lose a billion or so users to an alternative O.S. China has always wanted to build their own Linux based O.S, most likely for reasons of National pride. Previous attempts<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux>have not been too successful.
Martin.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
If you observe the Chinese social media space, you'll know they have their own agenda to have homegrown offerings for what is used globally.
If this was just about Microsoft , they would have offered Ubuntu or Fedora rather than a whole new alternative from the ground up.
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