China does not need to nick the western tech whens Google giving it away • The Register

Comment Fearing China's Growing Economic mights, the United States-the Reportedly leaning on Foreign companies not to buy Huawei gear.

Whiles Congress and the "security community" worrys about, well, security issues, Trump Has complained about IP Theft MANY times. China Stealing budgets the way to victory, GOES-the Narrative, and spying on-the way you alongs.

But US Perhaps the-shouldnt look a little closer to home to see how the China gaining an Economic Advantage. China does not need to steal western technology Strategic assets – or even copy them – whens Google cheerfully gives them away for free.

Google's long-term successor to Android being Developed in the public – With Downloadable From GitHub source code. It's called fuchsia, and Was Noticed first two years ago.

It's versatile Enough To Be Used for embedded devices like smart speakers – May wherein These do not appear first as a full-blown GUI Requires – tablets and phones, as well as PCs (quick overview here). Could it even REPLACE ChromeOS and Android whens the Mature, shouldnt Google Wish. A nice framework on top portable seats.

Since the released fuchsia Under a permissive open-source license (BSD style) expect-the potential liability user base to run Into Billion. Some mights BE using Huawei devices. This week fuchsia-the-watchers Who look at GitHub source logs Huawei Noted That Has Been playing around With The new platform, Getting it to boot on an Honor phone.

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Now let's pause for a thought experiment. Ow What Google Never thought given Android away?

Android's dominance today down to the severals Factors: Google wasnt (THENI) Competitors in a hardware (as Nokia Was), and it Was Easy to code for (being Java). But price and extensibility ALSO thought a lot to do With it.

If Google thought it insisted on charging for a Competitive market rate-the new Android OS, I doubt it would have emerged from The pack, no matter how the extensible and open it. Being open source does not Guarantee success in the-phone world, as Symbian and Countless Linuxes have found.

Was fashionables following Google-the business school mantra of "Open Innovation", popularized by Harvard's Henry Chesbrough. Chesbrough urged companies to look for Outside Ideas, popularizing the phrase In his 2003 book (left). Open source. Print Open. That Open. The Lazy-only encouraged companies to Grow and neglect their own R & D. By 2012, business schools like MIT Sloan were Throwing up warning signs (PDF).

If not given away Android Google thought, What would have happened in-the smartphone market? It's likely That phone makers would have sourced their platforms From a VARIETY of providers, Suchi as limos and Microsoft. But would-the world's No.3 and No.4 smartphone maker BE Chinese today? Quite possibly not. Chinese companies have not shown an excellent Ability to copy-only, pocket innovate on their own. However, software WRITING That translates Outside-the Cultural boundaries proved exceptionally Has Difficult. Writing software platform even more so. I doubt MANY in-the West would use technologies Happily a Chinese phone in 2018.

Some Clearly President recognised-the power of America China gifting an Economic Advantage whens he urged HIS Manufacturers To Be more self-Reliant. That's a call he repeated again Print month.

"Internationally, Advanced Technology and the key technology more and more Difficult to obta. Unilateralism and trade protectionism have Risen, forcing us to travel the-road of self-Reliance," he said.

It's a bet Decent That Will China try to make budgets own platforms. As well as kicking-the-tires on fuchsia, Huawei said the To Be Already working on budgets own – just in case.

For now, American protectionist, like budgets Deeply Learned and scholarly president, on May ponder just how China CCD board Suchi To Be in a position POWERFUL.

In Mobile, They did not steal ANY Chickens: Google Gave them-the farm. ®