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> Interesting that almost none of these devices are shipped with Google Account integration.

More interesting (for Google) is that 90% of Chinese people don't buy Windows and iOS phones.

Opensource at its finest and opensource as a defence weapon at the same time.



>More interesting (for Google) is that 90% of Chinese people don't buy Windows and iOS phones.

70% of people in the west doesn't buy Windows (nobody buys Windows phones, period), or iOS phones anyway.

So, it's not much surprise that Android does well in a much poorer market. It always catered mostly to the lower end of the market in the west too.




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