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sdowney717
September 10th, 2012, 01:59 PM
Article says number of Chinese internet users is going to vastly exceed any other country.

It does look like MS is an also ran in China smart phones.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/huge-threat-apple-google-youve-123000485.html


Alibaba has created it's own smartphone operating system, called Aliyun. Based on Linux, it is different than Apple's iOS and Google's Android in that users do not download apps, but connected to them over the Web.

Anyone seen these phones?

sdowney717
September 10th, 2012, 02:05 PM
Will Apple sue?

here is an Aliyun phone video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygQl1pVARk

afulldeck
September 10th, 2012, 02:31 PM
They might, but they have no hope of winning