Alibaba Cloud Computing, a unit of Alibaba Group, will release an English version of its mobile operating system via upgrade this month, a top company executive said on Friday. Wang Jian, Alibaba Group's chief architect and president of Alibaba Cloud Computing, was speaking to reporters. Alibaba launched in late July its first self-developed mobile operating system and smartphone in a bid to capture a slice of China's rapidly growing mobile Internet market. Earlier this week, Dell Inc confirmed that it was working with Baidu Inc to develop smartphones and tablets for the Chinese market.
Source: The Economic Times
Even if there are already big, established names in the smartphone market, I still think this is a sensible next move for Alibaba. Taking on the established operating systems might be a tall order but becoming almost synonymous with wholesale suppliers online was no mean feat either.
ReplyDeleteI doubt they designed an entire operating system just to make their services available via mobile but I bet that was one of the major considerations. Your average phone does do a lot now, much of which used to require a laptop if you wanted to get it done on the go.