http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
Its just that I hate communism and regard it a sad chapter in human history that should have stayed in teh 20th century.]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
a billion people cant be that wrong. ]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
But more to the point, of course android will flourish, not having ANYTHING to do with google, as if google could prevent/stop/change it.. oPhone is go, even if google took all of its money losing toys and left, the chinese government would shrug, and continue to use the OS if they chose (course they also do the same with proprietary licensed operating systems but thats another topic entirely)]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
If you've never spent significant time in mainland China you can't make statements like

"The people are really cool"

You just don't know what you're talking about. Sorry.]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
So what you're saying, is that, 250 years ago when there was no Communism, Socialism or Democracy (in the current sense), that Monarchy was clearly correct.]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
That is, I do hate myself.]]>Mar 17th 2010 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/I find much more sad that somebody starting post with "I really hate china" gets Highest Ranked. Its actually more sick than sad, and it says a lot about engadget readers :/]]>Mar 17th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
Yeah, I kind of regret saying that first looking back. But for the most part I mean what I say. Communism on paper works, communism in real life doesn't.]]>Mar 18th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 26th 2010 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Digimon, digital monsters, Digimon... (something something something)]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4221538.stm]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
1. Funny we don't here any complaints about the websites google US blocks on behest of the US government.

2. Google ran a foul of a lot of copyright infringements with Chinese authors, censorship was never a problem for google in china before they were about to get fined for copying intellectual property.

3. Who is to judge the limits of free speech? The US? The UN? Why not the host country of a company - google wants to operate on China, has to follow there laws - no complaints from microsoft, apple, Dell etc...

4. 80% of Chinese population satisfied with there government & it's policies - US could only wish for those kind of numbers

5. China soon to be the only superpower with out firing a shot. How many wars the US have in the last 50 years alone? ]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
I actually kind of agree. While I'm not a fan of communism at all, I don't see why Americans (I'm one myself) or American companies have to force the rest of the world to play by their rules! The old addage 'when in Rome, do as Romans do' goes for everyone but Americans. We always tell immigrants who come to the US to 'play by our rules' but when we go to foreign countries, we're too good to play by their rules. If we don't like their rules, that's our own damn fault for being pigheaded...the world doesn't revolve around the US, our ego is the only thing that makes our head continue to spin, sad to say :(]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
You can thank them playing with their currency and most of their business practices their for that. The US needs to grow balls and list them as a country that manipulates its currency. They have increased trade in their country this way and it's screwing over other countries. US and Europe included.

Anyways though I think google should have to follow their laws, they aren't god. ]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
Umm Japan, TIbet, Taiwan.. I think you really need to get your facts straight before making comments where you are clearly uninformed?

Just because the battles china has with its neighbors over the last 200 years do not make your nightly news? Doesn't mean they didnt happen..

Look up japan vs china circa ww1/ww2 and ponder if you will the "internal" battles china has had in the same time frame sometimes with its own citizens.. we call them human rights violations .. but war vs your own citizens.. is still considered "firing a shot"

Information is power... reading is fundamental!]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
China is Communist in a few areas, but basically is a Capitalist's Paradise. Saying that China is an example of how Communism is not that bad is a misnomer.

Glenn Beck would love China, except for the religion thing.]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
1. I haven't heard about this? Can you please give me a few sites that Google has blocked because of a US Government request?

2. Copyright infringements? In China? You're kiddin me right?

3. I agree for the most part. Free speech is different even in other democracies, like the UK. That said, I can call the President of the US and Prime Minister of the UK dumbasses, and not worry an bit. So yeah, I'm guessing that our free speech laws are right and China's are wrong.

4. A good rule of thumb is that any poll taken in a country where your beliefs can get you arrested should be taken with a grain of salt. Am I saying that the poll was wrong? No. Am I saying that the poll is invalid because China doesn't respect the right to freedom of expression, press, etc? Yes.

5. China soon to be the only superpower with out firing a shot. How many wars the US have in the last 50 years alone?

We have had 5 (that I consider to be actual wars).]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
China is a SINO....

Superpower In Name Only.

]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/And I guess Tianamen didn't happen? You don't call that using the military to achieve some means? I call that a war against your own people.

This has nothing to do with cultural differences, as my Dad has worked in both South Korea and China. This has to do with human and civil rights. People have the right to read about whatever they want, and they have the right to say pretty much whatever they want (provided it doesn't incite violence) without consequence. And if your "culture" says otherwise, it is wrong. Korean culture is vastly different, and closer to Chinese culture than American culture, yet they have unlimited access to the internet and can read whatever they want and make their own informed decisions.]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
I think you mean that China is playing with the US currency cause they like totally bought you mob out dude. Chinese loans propping up America.

The US, oh no, no playing with currencies there, hell no. So why aren't you mob bankrupt, cause you just changed the game and printed more money. Or how about, futures and derivitives or maybe some forex gambling with pretend shares and fake money. Woo not going well today we might lose, stop the market can't have that, got to manipulate. Banks going belly up, heck they just tell the government to take a loan from them with interest to bail them out. Oh yeah, love that shit eh.

Most in debt nation in the world parading about a strong currency and telling people how to run the books. Run em into the ground...

It's not even the kettle calling the pot. It's the kettle calling the kettle.

Not your fault, we're all nobodies, it's a small mob at the top looking after their relos and mates while the rest try and afford a doctor. Hmmm, sounds familiar, isn't that commu... Ah no, no.

Fantasy lands my friend, let them pretend, but hey let's not us pretend. We freAkin live it ]]>Mar 17th 2010 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
How about those lofty communist officials who make money from the trafficking of southeast Asian women? Or build schools from cheap materials that kill thousands of children?

Sorry but I don't see the Chinese stealing enough IP to be any world's sole superpower in the next 100 years.]]>Mar 17th 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
China could take Android, fork it and rename it to Chidroid. Google can't do anything about that.]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/]]>Mar 16th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/now would it. :) you know i had to say it although I agree with your post. ]]>Mar 17th 2010 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
you do know android already has more market share in the smartphone world than linux on desktops]]>Mar 17th 2010 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/
Mobile and desktop markets aren't comparable, they're used for different things. Android is doing reasonably well so far but the smartphone market is still in its infancy, at least a far as mass uptake is concerned. Apple and RIM will continue to dominate for some time and Microsoft will soon eat away much of what's left from Google.]]>Mar 17th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 16th 2010 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/google-says-android-should-flourish-in-china-effectively-conc/Mar 17th 2010 2:30AM