Alibaba leaves to compete with Apple and Google
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has launched a mobile operating system with which it seeks to take a field dominated by U.S. companies.
The Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, one of the largest conglomerates in the world of internet, looking to compete against Google and Apple (and Nokia, Microsoft, Blackberry and even Mozilla) in the market for mobile operating systems.
Just present your operating system Aliyun ("Ali-cloud", in order to capture the growing market of China, where it is expected that sales of smartphones will accelerate dramatically.
The company said the system will incorporate services such as email, Internet search and structure needed to run web based applications.
"Mobile users want an operating system more open and convenient, allowing them to take a really all that internet has to offer, in the palm of their hands," said Wang Jian, president of the area of ​​computing in the cloud Alibaba.
"The operating system, with its cloud-based applications, will provide just that," he said.
It is scheduled from Linux and allow users to install applications from Android (Google's operating system) as well as access Aliyun own programs, which will live in the cloud.
Hardware
Alibaba also launched K-Touch, the first smartphone to use Aliyun produced by another company.
The company said it is in talks with manufacturers to develop phones that use simple operating system.
Alibaba said it has no plans to turn over the business of producing phones on their own.
"We should not make a phone. We're not in that ecosystem," said Wang
Neither wants to be involved in selling the devices.
Maybe they've got some learning what happened to Google, which had many problems when it came to sell an Android-based phone Nexus One-on their own, but whose fundamental business model, offering an open system for that used quite freely manufacturers and wireless carriers, has given excellent results.
According to the consultancy Canalys, the majority of smartphones sold in the first quarter of 2011 operating with Android, fighting head to head leadership in this segment giant Apple smart mobile devices.
Diversify, a trend Alibaba is originally an online platform where Chinese suppliers can be contacted by wholesale buyers from abroad and also has an electronic trading platform focused on end users called Taobao.
As part of the technological development of these sites, the company had already begun working with systems in the cloud, then decided to expand into new uses.
This phenomenon is repeated in technology companies: Amazon began as an online bookstore, then began to offer more and more products, opened its platform to other vendendores and later went on to sell storage and cloud services, then the reader Kindle e-book.
Google began as a search engine, jumped to the telephone and even created a computer operating system, Chrome OS, also based in the cloud.
In Latin America, MercadoLibre, for example, has traveled a similar path. He started as an online auction site and was adding more and more services.
"Today," he told BBC Marcos Galperin, the CEO, "we have created many tools to help anyone who wants to make electronic commerce", ranging from platforms to set up entire websites to technologies for electronic payment.
All these companies are finding their way into new segments, as they consolidate and identify new business opportunities.
Alibaba, meanwhile, has already announced plans to launch a tablet with its operating system Aliyun near the end of the year.
Source: BBC Mundo.com
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has launched a mobile operating system with which it seeks to take a field dominated by U.S. companies.
The Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, one of the largest conglomerates in the world of internet, looking to compete against Google and Apple (and Nokia, Microsoft, Blackberry and even Mozilla) in the market for mobile operating systems.
Just present your operating system Aliyun ("Ali-cloud", in order to capture the growing market of China, where it is expected that sales of smartphones will accelerate dramatically.
The company said the system will incorporate services such as email, Internet search and structure needed to run web based applications.
"Mobile users want an operating system more open and convenient, allowing them to take a really all that internet has to offer, in the palm of their hands," said Wang Jian, president of the area of ​​computing in the cloud Alibaba.
"The operating system, with its cloud-based applications, will provide just that," he said.
It is scheduled from Linux and allow users to install applications from Android (Google's operating system) as well as access Aliyun own programs, which will live in the cloud.
Hardware
Alibaba also launched K-Touch, the first smartphone to use Aliyun produced by another company.
The company said it is in talks with manufacturers to develop phones that use simple operating system.
Alibaba said it has no plans to turn over the business of producing phones on their own.
"We should not make a phone. We're not in that ecosystem," said Wang
Neither wants to be involved in selling the devices.
Maybe they've got some learning what happened to Google, which had many problems when it came to sell an Android-based phone Nexus One-on their own, but whose fundamental business model, offering an open system for that used quite freely manufacturers and wireless carriers, has given excellent results.
According to the consultancy Canalys, the majority of smartphones sold in the first quarter of 2011 operating with Android, fighting head to head leadership in this segment giant Apple smart mobile devices.
Diversify, a trend Alibaba is originally an online platform where Chinese suppliers can be contacted by wholesale buyers from abroad and also has an electronic trading platform focused on end users called Taobao.
As part of the technological development of these sites, the company had already begun working with systems in the cloud, then decided to expand into new uses.
This phenomenon is repeated in technology companies: Amazon began as an online bookstore, then began to offer more and more products, opened its platform to other vendendores and later went on to sell storage and cloud services, then the reader Kindle e-book.
Google began as a search engine, jumped to the telephone and even created a computer operating system, Chrome OS, also based in the cloud.
In Latin America, MercadoLibre, for example, has traveled a similar path. He started as an online auction site and was adding more and more services.
"Today," he told BBC Marcos Galperin, the CEO, "we have created many tools to help anyone who wants to make electronic commerce", ranging from platforms to set up entire websites to technologies for electronic payment.
All these companies are finding their way into new segments, as they consolidate and identify new business opportunities.
Alibaba, meanwhile, has already announced plans to launch a tablet with its operating system Aliyun near the end of the year.
Source: BBC Mundo.com