A Chinese government think-tank has warned that the country’s smartphone industry is over-reliant on Google’s Android mobile operating system and accused the US company of discriminating against local companies.
“Our country’s research and development of mobile operating systems is over-dependent on Android,” said the China Academy of Telecommunication Research in a report.
The comment echoes tensions that the growing dominance of Android has triggered among global mobile operators, who at last month’s Mobile World Congress trade show rallied behind a new mobile operating system from Mozilla Firefox in an effort to erode Apple and Google’s smartphone supremacy.