{"id":747632,"date":"2013-04-22T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=456470"},"modified":"2013-04-22T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:35:45","slug":"android-predicted-to-beat-apple-in-china-thanks-to-its-potential-for-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747632","title":{"rendered":"Android predicted to beat Apple in China \u2013 thanks to its potential for \u2018oppression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/22\/android-apple-china-market-analysis-456470\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/apple-vs-android-e1348162444756.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Android predicted to beat Apple in China because of its potential for &#039;oppression&#039;\" title=\"Apple Versus Android\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>We tend to think of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/google-chairman-schmidt-facebook-home-443186\/\">an open source operating system as something that gives both smartphone vendors and end users more freedom<\/a> to customize their experiences. But as <a href=\"http:\/\/brontecapital.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/guessing-about-future-apple-in-china.html\"><em>Bronte Capital's<\/em>\u00a0John Hempton points out<\/a>, open source software can have a dark side as well if it is changed by authoritarian governments to limit the information that end users can access. Hempton says he bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> Desire HD off of eBay from a Middle Eastern country a couple of years ago and found that \"it did not contain any access to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> market place (Google's equivalent of the App store),\" that \"it had limited apps and no possibility of adding more\" and \"it contained a non-standard web browser and a non-standard email client (leaving open the possibility of the State watching what I wrote and said).\"<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/22\/android-apple-china-market-analysis-456470\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/X9DeTAsWmRc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tend to think of an open source operating system as something that gives both smartphone vendors and end users more freedom to customize their experiences. But as Bronte Capital&#8217;s\u00a0John Hempton points out, open source software can have a dark side as well if it is changed by authoritarian governments to limit the information that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38uA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}