‘China Bemoans Google’s Control Over Smartphone Market’ – ‘Mashable’

Gwynn Guilford says, “Does Google have too much control over China’s smartphone market? China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) thinks so. In a white paper its research arm released Friday (pdf in Chinese), it bemoaned the “heavy reliance” on Google’s Android software among Chinese smartphone developers.

“Chinese enterprises commonly use Android-based systems in their development and optimization, and although the Android system is open-source, the core technology and and technology roadmap is under the strict control of Google,” the white paper said. “China’s enterprises constantly face Google’s commercial discrimination, including the delay of timing on codesharing due to agreement restrictions.”

The paper pointed out that Android was used in 97.7% of Chinese-made smartphones”.