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Is this much different from what MIUI (Xiao Mi) did with their android ROM, they replaced a lot of the default android services as well? They're also releasing an android phone soon [1]

Any distrust of chinese technology aside, I'm actually really looking forward to what this OS will be like. imo MIUI is the most usable android ROM around, and it's much more stable than cyanogen. It proved to me that Chinese startups are capable of producing really awesome products.

iPhone currently has the biggest smart phone market share in China by far, this looks like the beginnings of Android taking over China like it did the rest of the english world.

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I reckon it's not fair to compare Xiao Mi with Baidu, baidu is an evil company with evil history, they sort the search results based on how much clients would like to pay, similar with AdSense, but the ad supported results are blended with normal search results without indication. A year back they even publish fake medicines in search results.

This is one of the story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/08/16/baidu-slid...

Baidu no longer a startup company, they control the search engine market in china, ordinary people don't have the concept of search engine, baidu it is...

I don't think that evil at all. I think people use that word way to fast. Killing people is evil. Lieing is evil. As long as they are open about it, which they seem to be, I think it's perfectly okay. Maybe if someone is willing to pay, that's often even a better indication of relevance then some random metric on links.

I also think there was also a study about Google, which found that many people can not tell apart ads and normal results.

I was using Xiao Mi as an example of a great Android product from China rather than a comparison to Baidu (though I didn't know about Baidu's search result practices).

My question still stands though, is it much more of an Android "fork" as what the modifications that Xiao Mi is making?

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