星期三, 九月 01, 2010

中国移动Ophone:最后的生日?

Shanzai.com发表了一篇辛辣的文章:
 
China Mobile's Ophone Project Reaches First Birthday, Expected To Be Its Last
中国移动Ophone迎来了它的一周岁生日,也可能是最后一次
 
一些摘抄:
 
"China Mobile's OPhone has failed."
中国移动的Ophone已经失败。
"China Mobile has to add its own modifications on top of Android, therefore OPhone is always one generation behind Android in development."
中国移动不得不在Android平台上添加自己的修改,因而Ophone总是比Android的发展速度落后一代。
"They [China Mobile] are making an open standard into a closed one. This is not welcomed among application developers."
他们(中国移动)把一个开放的标准变成了封闭的。这招致了大部分的应用开发者的厌恶。
 
As of April this year there were 600 OPhone apps available. Compare that to Android's 30,000 or so apps and the iPhone's mammoth 225,000. End users are apparently less than pleased to find that OPhone devices are frequently shipped with China Mobile-centric apps. For example, you won't find Gmail or Google Maps which are standard on an Android package, but you will find China Mobile's own 139 e-mail.
截至今年4月份,Ophone平台上有600个应用。和Android3万个应用以及iPhone猛犸级的22.5万个应用相比几乎可以忽略。最终用户显然对Ophone设备上集成以中国移动为中心的应用程序感到不满。例如,你找不到在标准Android中的Gmail或者Google地图程序,而是中国移动自己的139邮箱程序。
 
With companies like MediaTek ramping up its efforts to offer an affordable Android board and OS bundle to manufacturers, the overall growth of the grey market/shanzai smart phone and even competition from other areas such as increasing imports of iPhone 4 devices from Hong Kong, the OPhone experiment looks thoroughly doomed.
当类似MediaTek这样的公司开始提供Android板子给手机商的时候,灰色的山寨智能手机市场就会快速增长,再加上来自其他领域的激烈竞争,例如越来越多的香港水货iPhone4的进入,Ophone的前景显得无比黯淡。
 
 

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