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Will the iOS be successful in China?

October 18, 2010 19:22 by: Karl Johnson   0 Comments

 Apparently the Chinese government does not think so.  The "Pulitzer Prize" winning newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor has quoted the The People’s Daily (official organ of the ruling Communist party) as saying about the iPad:

“There are many disadvantages” to the gadgets, it wrote. “For example you cannot install pirate software on them, you cannot download [free] music, and you need to pay for movies you watch on them.”

Yeah, paying people for the content they create is a major negative of the iOS.  I am sure the developers on the iOS platform will go somewhere else, because they want people to steal their software.  The Chinese would not steal some intellectual property and try to make a cheaper knock-off, would they? Off course not.

Looks like Android may become popular in China.  As the saying goes "Android is built by pirates for pirates".

 

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