China
China Mobile gets to be the first operator to introduce mobile IE 6 in their Samsung Omnia. Congratulations to Chinese users for being tied to Microsoft products forever.
Bruce, my colleague in Opera, ran a standard compliance test on mobile IE 6 for CSS3 selectors, and guess what?The results say “from the 43 selectors, 10 have passed. 1 are buggy and 3 are unsupported.
Image:CSS3 selector test
South Korea
Google Chrome decides to support ActiveX in South Korea. Well, the question is why just South Korea? Because this is a country where its banks, airlines and everything else have ActiveX support despite ActiveX’s notorious security issue. Congratulations to South Koreans for having to use ActiveX for another decade.
Japan
Lastly, Nokia says bye bye to Japan, after trying hard to crack the kawaii nation, Nokia has finally given up. Despite a 40% global share, Nokia is largely a fringe player in Japan. So Sayonara Nokia.
China’s potential is immense,and the market unique! Google has barely over 30% market share, trailing behind leader Baidu. And even more surprising is that Baidu’s 80% user base are under 24 year old, making Baidu a cash cow in years to come when these young adults starts to work.
Even more shocking is that China’s Mobile users are at 350 million and growing at a rate of 50 million a year. 50 million is really the population of two Malaysia, and five Sweden.
China’s copycat culture is well and alive in cyberspace too. Baidu looks immensely like Google. And QQ borrowed the IM idea and now boast 220 Million user. Mind you, Yahoo Messenger only has 60 million. See what I mean? Alexa freeks out there know it all too well as China’s websites take up two spots in the Global top five.
The next thing I am wondering is- How is the web2.0-startup culture in China? Is there a chinese twitter out there? How about a chinese MyBlogLog? Now is the China’s best of time. The dragon has awaken, and even the great firewall of China can stop its flames.
