The success of Google’s Android operating system in China is not under threat from a host of mobile operating systems being unleashed on the mainland as they will be “niche” products, according to a senior industry executive.
Over the past few months, Chinese groups including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent have been moving into an area dominated by the US group’s Android platform, raising questions about what that could mean for Google’s one big success story in China.
But David Ku, chief financial officer of MediaTek, the world’s biggest supplier of chips to Chinese phonemakers, said that phones based on these new operating systems will lack wider appeal as they are designed primarily to draw users towards using one company’s services exclusively.