Will the Google | China relationship change overtime

The bad relationship Google has with china is over searchengine censorship. That won’t influence the Android market much though, since Google is getting a lot of exposure due to the Chinese devices.

I don’t think anything is going to improve for the better anytime soon, sad to say.

It’s very annoying all round. It makes buying Android devices a bit trickier. Now I always ensure I get the non-Chinese version when I do, after buying the Chinese version of my Asus Transformer and discovering it lacked the Google Play store. I eventually hacked the device, but it was a real pain.

Recently I bought a Samsung Note II (Really good device) for both myself and the wife. However, she wanted the dual sim one, and the only version available was the Chinese one. As she was Chinese, and I could work around the limitations of the lack of Google Play store, we bought it. Mine is the European version.

After playing we discovered mine had several features that the Chinese version doesn’t! (For example voice entry – when taking a picture with my camera I can say ‘shoot’ and it takes a picture, no such feature on hers).

It just adds that little extra frustration.

The Android market will remain affect even if Google and China have some kind of conflict. The search engine issue is completely unrelated, and to be honest they are both kinda making profit from each other.

The bad relationship won’t last for ever, china phones are not as tough as other phones. Maybe cause of the bad relationship, but Google things are fine on every phone, tablet.