The Play Store would be used to introduce several products and services that are popular on Google Play Store all over the world. There are lots of free ways of getting music in China and that is why it becomes so hard for a Western service to enter the market.
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In response to Google’s desire, Shen Si, the CEO of Chinese mobile advertising company, Papaya Mobile, and a former Google employee, mentioned in the related report, “Having a product in China would be a symbolic gesture to show that the company values the market”. Google is yet to finalise on what products and services it would release next year in China. However, Play Store is a relatively less sensitive product.
Despite the perceived notion that scores of people wake up before dawn on Black Friday to start crossing items off their gift lists, the early morning is actually one of the least crowded times to start shopping, according to Google.
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It is well known that Android users living in China can’t access the company’s Play Store in order to download apps, so they have to rely on alternative app store. Though they have already planned for the app store to launch first next year, there is still no definite plan on what products would be launched next.
Google hopes is app store will include as payment options Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat platform, said a person familiar with executives’ strategy. Even more, they want to adapt to all the rules imposed by China, so they need to “obey” the laws requiring storing Google Play data within China.
China is too big a market for Google to ignore.
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Because services like its search, e-mail and mapping are blocked in China, the US firm is trying to cement partnerships with domestic providers like Mobvoi, which offers technology similar to Apple’s Siri and Google’s own version. Apple has complied with all of the local laws of the country and managed to earn $ 58.7 billion from there in the year ending Sep 26 including the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong which makes it their second largest market.
