The worldwide known
Chinese e-commerce website has taken a sudden interest in the Chinese
Smartphone maker Meizu and has invested a hefty amount for the same too.
According to reporters, Alibaba.com has invested $590 million and has a bought
itself a minority stake of the Chinese smartphone maker Meizu. The deal open
gates for more hardware for the company’s custom made OS known as YunOS for
mobile phones, at the same time allowing Meizu access to Alibaba’s vast online
e-commerce network.
The new deal between these
two giants marks a synergetic focus on growth of hardware and mobile platform
for both the e-commerce giant along with a much-required avenue for growth of
the fledgling Chinese company Meizu.
The e-commerce giant
Alibaba had earlier planned of launching its own smartphone OS that does not come
with Google services, which are banned in China. The main aim of the project
was to take down the Android which powers majority phones in the country.
Alibaba viewed the OS as a gateway to reach out more users with its
pre-installed services.
The Zhuhai, Guangdong
headquartered, Meizu currently has 1,000 employees and works to make
smartphones for the Chinese market. The most recent reviewed product of Meizu
is the MX4. For this new device Meizu MX4, Alibaba has already provided Meizu
with its OS (YunOS). Meizu currently has only 1 percent market share as
compared to other well established smartphone makers such as Xiaomi, Lenovo and
Huawei. To compete with this, Meizu has already been gearing up for the Yun OS
since October, 2014. And now the time has come for the company to launch its
Yun powered phones.
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Alibaba’s YunOS (meaning
cloud OS in mandarin) is an incompatible fork of Android, though pirated Android
apps are still available to use in the Aliyun App Store. YunOS is also known as
Aliyun OS. The OS is designed based on cloud services, letting you access
messages, call data and other things across a number of systems running the OS.
The question now is whether the Chinese manufacturer Meizu will emerge from its
now state or will it incur more loss. Only time will tell.