Chinese Brands Take an Important Step Towards Building a Global Smartphone Ecosystem
Feb 7, 2020
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Author : Neil Shah, Tom Kang
Overview:
The Big 4, Huawei, OPPO, Vivo, Xiaomi (HOVX) have joined to form an organization called GDSA (Global Developer Service Alliance) which is planning to provide a platform for developers to upload apps to the app stores of the Big 4 (HOVX) easily and quickly. This is targeting overseas developers, so it is not for China.
This is a challenge to the Google Play Store and further to Google controlled Android itself.
Table of Contents:
- Top 4 Chinese brands creating a combined app store
- Root causes
- Implications to the industry, competition, and key supply chain players
- Hardware independence, software independence, what next?
Number of Pages: 5
Author: Neil Shah and Tom Kang
Published Date: February, 2020
