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| Acer CloudMobile A800 |
Acer was supposed to launch a version of the CloudMobile smartphone
that runs on Aliyun OS, an Android-based operating system developed by
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group. However, the two organizations
have announced that the launch of their Acer CloudMobile A800 (pictured)
was canceled.
Journalists in Shanghai who were supposed to cover the event Thursday
were not allowed to enter the venue and an official from Alibaba’s
subsidiary Alibaba Cloud Computing said the launch had been canceled
because of “internal reasons.”
Alibaba, which already released its own Aliyun-powered smartphone
last year, released a statement later on that Taiwan-based electronics
company Acer gave in to pressure from Google Inc and pulled out of the
launch event.
“Our partner received notification from Google that if the new
product launch with Aliyun went ahead, Google would terminate Android
product cooperation and related technical authorization with Acer,” the
statement read.
Both spokespersons from Acer and Google declined to comment.
Source: Reuters, via MyBroadband.co.za
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