Motorolla making ways for Baidu Inc. as default web browsers
Motorola Inc. the leader in mobile phones is letting China users to use Baidu Inc. as their default browser. Baidu is the No.1 search engine in china. motorolla announced on thursday that it will allow chinese people to use Baidu as their default search engine and that too in Android software operated phones as well. This happened as google threatened to exit china because of cyber attack and censorship issues.
Reuters : Christy Wyatt, Motorola's vice president for software and services, said the move was a way to offer customers choice and declined to comment on the Google dispute. Neither did she address Google's announcement that it postponed two Android phones in China. This announcement was the effect of google threat as various investors think that it might effect the cellphone market.
Motorola also announced an application store for Android phone users in China, where Google's own app store has not been available, and said it may do this in other countries as well.
"There's an opportunity not just in China, where there is no market for applications," Wyatt said in an interview.