“Google is not faring well in China due to the government’s restrictions,” Star Chang reports for M.I.C. Gadget. “Now the Great Firewall of China has blocked the Android Market, the online app store for Android smartphone users.”
“This is not the first time that Android Market was blocked in China, it had happened once before in 2009,” Chang reports. “For the Android users in China, they only have an option to use other local app stores.”
MacDailyNews Take: Save the effort, Android settlers: Just email your bank account numbers directly to the Chinese mafia.
Chang reports, “[This] is something that Google definitely does not appreciate, already the search giant is facing tough competition to have its own place in China due to its local search rival, Baidu. Google also faces a severe deficit of trust with the Chinese government… We won’t know what is the cause behind the block, the only guess might be the Chinese authorities are dishing out more ‘punishment’ to Google. Google should worry about missing out on the lucrative business of selling mobile apps in China.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It seems that Google’s pretend App Store for their pretend iPhones is just going to have to pretend to be open in the world’s second largest economy.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]