{"id":3708,"date":"2012-09-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/sep\/20\/the-new-tipping-point-chinese-mobile-cloud-vs-google-android-app-ecosystem\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T08:00:00","slug":"new-tipping-point-chinese-mobile-cloud-vs-google-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/new-tipping-point-chinese-mobile-cloud-vs-google-android\/","title":{"rendered":"New tipping point: Chinese mobile cloud Vs Google Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Smartphones<\/span> are generating new battlefields between those who want to service applications through the cloud and those that wish to distribute them through tightly controlled App marketplaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Ironically, it is the Chinese who believe their new mobile OS called Aliyun, built on Linux open source, is the true flag bearer for a new generation of cloud computing applications and websites which will run remotely in Alibaba&rsquo;s cloud and mainly appeal to a Chinese audience (shortly set to overtake the United States as the world&rsquo;s largest smartphone user base).<\/p>\n<p>The hardware they chose to launch this assault was Acer, who enthusiastically partnered with Alibaba, only to be reprimanded by Google who claimed the Aliyun mobile OS was merely a knock-off of&nbsp; the Android platform, currently governed by the Google-initiated Android Open Handset Alliance (OHA).<\/p>\n<p>Google claims Alibaba, in making Aliyun, &ldquo;forked&rdquo; the operating system, which is now no longer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones are generating new battlefields between those who want to service applications through the cloud and those that wish to distribute them through tightly controlled App marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it is the Chinese who believe their new mobile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}