{"id":982,"date":"2016-01-17T12:34:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=982"},"modified":"2016-01-17T12:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T04:34:05","slug":"exploring-the-android-ecosystem-in-china-interview-by-xda-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Android Ecosystem in China \u2014 Interview by XDA \u2014 Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Android has dominated the mobile landscape for several years now, and it doesn\u2019t look like that dominance will disappear anytime soon. At Google I\/O, Sundar Pichai revealed that there are 1 billion Android users. With the explosive developmental growth in places such as the African continent, India, and China, it\u2019s hard to predict Android\u2019s numbers going anywhere but up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"3970\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">China is an especially interesting market for Android given the difficulties\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-pulls-out-of-china-2010-3\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-pulls-out-of-china-2010-3\">Google has had in the past dealing with the Chinese government.<\/a>\u00a0Even today, the Play Store\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.greatfire.org\/play.google.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/en.greatfire.org\/play.google.com\">remains blocked by the Great Firewall in mainland China<\/a>. What does this mean for Google and Android? Of the\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/press-release\/smartphones-account-for-two-thirds-of-chinese-mobile-market-by-year-end-gsma-intelligence-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/press-release\/smartphones-account-for-two-thirds-of-chinese-mobile-market-by-year-end-gsma-intelligence-study\/\">nearly 900 million smartphone users in China<\/a>, approximately\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kantarworldpanel.com\/global\/smartphone-os-market-share\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.kantarworldpanel.com\/global\/smartphone-os-market-share\/\">77.4% of those users are operating an Android device.<\/a>\u00a0That means there are about 700 million active Android users in China\u200a\u2014\u200amore than double the population of the United States\u200a\u2014\u200aand\u00a0<strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">none of them have official access to the Google Play Store!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@oasisfeng\/exploring-the-android-ecosystem-in-china-interview-by-xda-cc957732846e#.5skqfj7s1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0f7tg3DgdQ_SmeJlA.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@oasisfeng\/exploring-the-android-ecosystem-in-china-interview-by-xda-cc957732846e\">Exploring the Android Ecosystem in China \u2014 Interview by XDA \u2014 Medium<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android has dominated the mobile landscape for several years now, and it doesn\u2019t look like that dominance will disappear anytime soon. At Google I\/O, Sundar Pichai revealed that there are 1 billion Android users. With the explosive developmental growth in places such as the African continent, India, and China, it\u2019s hard to predict Android\u2019s numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}