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Baidu Planning Its Own OS: FT

It appears to want Baidu to open a “web search box” within a second of turning on a smartphone or tablet
By Maureen O'Gara
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March 27, 2011 03:00 PM EDT
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Baidu, China's dominant version of Google, is building its own Chrome OS-like lightweight mobile operating system, the Financial Times said Tuesday after a chat with Baidu's CEO Robin Li.

It appears to want Baidu to open a "web search box" within a second of turning on a smartphone or tablet. "Right now," Li told the paper, "when you power on an iPhone, it takes 45 seconds before you can do anything. In the future, one second, you turn on the device, and you can start using the box. That's our mission for the future of the Internet."

Gee, apparently people in China turn their phones off.

And apparently Baidi's not in a rush. It seems to imagine obviating operating systems taking three to five years.

Here's something Google can relate to: "The goal is to let people become increasingly dependent on the Baidu box," Li is quoted as saying.

Neither Baidu nor Li would confirm that Baidu is actually developing such a thing for other news outlets. He told the Dow Jones that "someone else can do it or we can do it ourselves, does not matter."

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