AliBaba and the Cloud-Based Aliyun OS - Lady Gaga's Low-Cost smartphone

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers

From the seas and the streams;

I bear light shade for the leaves when laid

In their noonday dreams.

Shelley, The Cloud

In my blog article entitled “Google Chrome OS for Tablets Coming - Around the World in 80 Days”, I noted the French Web Developer Francois Beaufort discovery of Google Chrome OS within the latest release of the Chromebook OS, its earlier incarnation, the Cr-48 Network Computer or smartbook being described in my blog article entitled “Chrome OS Cr-48 and the Mobion Fuel Cell Generator - Green Lantern”.

So Cloud-based Tablet may not be too far behind, as we may be looking at Google Chrome OS powered Tablets by the Fourth Quarter of 2011AD!

For that matter, neither may Cloud-Based smartphones from Apple as prognosticated in my blog article entitled  “Apple and the Cloud Phone - Cheaper by the Dozen and Up in the Air” and my Geezam Blog article entitled “Towards a cheaper Apple iPhone – Batteries Not Included”.

Not surprisingly, unofficial word out of Mountain View, California based Google sounds increasingly positive as it relates to the sales of the thus far quietly selling Chromebooks as stated in the article “Google Pleased With Chromebook Sales”, published June 17, 2011 07:06 PM By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, albeit no sales figures yet exist to back up the perceived halo of optimism.

But the attraction of a smartbook that looks like a MacBook that is cheaper and comes with web apps with the only problem being that you have no offline access to your files, the obvious foible, is not such a bad proposition if you are committed to living online and in the Cloud, so to speak as stated in the Geezam Blog article entitled “Chrome OS and Chromebook – Simplicity, Security and Speed”.

A future ability to save content offline to a Google Chrome OS secured thumb drive and compelling apps as stated in the article “How Google Apps could boost Chromebook sales”, published MAY 23, 2011 4:00 AM PDT By Stephen Shankland, CNET News – DeepTech combined with the attraction of sub US$499 price makes Chromebooks worth the gamble with unreliable Wireless Broadband Internet.

Not to mention a laptop that is on my Christmas shopping list, as Jamaica, thanks to Telecom Provider Digicel, is going into Cloud-Based computing this Fourth Quarter of 2011AD as stated in as stated in my Geezam Blog article entitled “Digicel’s Cloud Backup Services – A deep Analysis” and my blog article entitled “Digicel Cloud Backup Service and future Cloud-Based Services - V.S Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas”.

So it should come as no surprise that an entity in the People’s Republic of China would extend the concept of the Cloud-Based nature of a NC (Network Computer) as stated in the article “Alibaba Mobile OS Appears in Pictures, Showing Aliyun as a Cloud-Based Future”, published JULY 14, 2011 by STEVEN MILLWARD, Penn Olson which is driven by the current rapid expansion in Wireless Broadband to smartphones, thereby making them cheaper.

Chinese online payment giant Alibaba, PayPal’s contemporary, has done just that, debuting a Cloud-Based smartphone OS called Aliyun OS as stated in the article “Alibaba Confirms Aliyun, Its Cloud-Powered Mobile and Tablet OS”, published JULY 28, 2011 by STEVEN MILLWARD, Penn Olson and the article “Alibaba announces 'Cloud-powered' Aliyun OS, K-Touch W700 phone”, published July 29th 2011 5:56AM By Dante Cesa, EnGadget.

Here are a few screenshots of Alibaba’s Cloud-Based Aliyun OS:

Developed for the past three (3) year by Chinese online payment giant Alibaba, PayPal’s counterpart, it heralds the first Cloud-Based phone known to mankind and is NOT my idea. My suggestion back in April of 2009AD to a bunch of Shurpower Engineers en route to fixing some generators was the NC, which later materialized as the Google Cr-48, the prototype for the Google Chromebook, with suggestions for a Cloud-based smartphone but with no real specifics.

Aliyun OS will debut on the K-Touch W700 at the end of July 2011 as described in the article “Alibaba’s Smartphone Shows Off Its Shiny Metal Body”, published JULY 18, 2011 by STEVEN MILLWARD, Penn Olson (dat gone long time, but cho!) and will also make its way onto Tablets as an alternative OS to Google Android by the Fourth Quarter of 2012AD (dat nuh gawn yet!).  

I know this sounds cliché, but this will be just in them for Christmas 2012AD and the London Olympics 2012 slated for July 27^th 2012AD!

President of Alibaba Cloud Computing, Wang Jian spoke of Alibaba's Aliyun OS and the market demand he foresees, quote: “Mobile users want a more open and convenient mobile OS, one that allows them to truly enjoy all that the Internet has to offer right in the palm of their hand, and the Cloud OS, with its use of Cloud-based applications, will provide that.”.

Hence the connection to my blog article entitled “Google Chrome OS for Tablets Coming - Around the World in 80 Days”.

Despite the humble nature of French Web Developer Francois Beaufort discovery, it has huge implications for Apple’s Dominance in the Tablet space as well as Google Android’s coming dominance as noted in my blog article entitled “Android Tablets Marketshare gain over the Apple iPad - Clear and Present Danger”.

In point form:

• It makes potentially Tablets and smartphones cheaper, with prices in the US$399 range and lower, a serious challenger to both the Apple iPad and Google Android in BOTH those markets.
• The apps are Web apps, which means you only have to know about web programming as an App Developer in order to design apps for the Platform.
• Alibaba's Cloud-Based Aliyun OS is fully compatible with Google Apps, a SERIOUS advantage than will make lovers of Google apps also start considering cheaper Tablets

That last point is the clincher, as it would make Developing for the Aliyun OS worth the gamble with unreliable Wireless Broadband Internet. French Web Developer Francois Beaufort, listen to the ka-ching of the cash register by 2012AD!

Alibaba explains it best, quote: “Third-party developers can opt to either develop Cloud apps over their own servers or choose to use AliCloud’s infrastructure and open Platform services at a low cost and quickly develop their businesses”

And it potential in the People’s Republic of China can be easily seen according to latest statistics gleaned by research firm Analysys International cribbed from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, People's Republic of China:

§         80 million (80,000,000) plus 3G mobile users, 9.5% of the national mobile users

§         62 million smartphones sold in 2010

§         19.07 million smartphones sold in the First Quarter of 2011

§         19.2% of all mobile phone sales are smartphones in the First Quarter of 2010

§         30% of all mobile phone sales are smartphones in the First Quarter of 2011

The People’s Republic of China market potential is huge as stated in the article “Move over Android, China has a new Cloud-based phone!”, published July 28, 2011, 9:21am PT By Kevin C. Tofel,GigaOM, making a Cloud-Based Tablet and a Cloud-Based smartphone very viable options in their rapidly expanding Wireless Broadband Mobile Market.

Apple knows this is also true in the now saturated US Mobile Market, and may be developing a cheaper Cloud-Based smartphone to target that very same market segment as stated in my blog article entitled  “Apple and the Cloud Phone - Cheaper by the Dozen and Up in the Air” and my Geezam Blog article entitled “Towards a cheaper Apple iPhone – Batteries Not Included”

Like Alibaba's Cloud-Based Aliyun OS, this Apple iPhone 4GS (as I like to call it) may be Cloud-Based, Lady Gaga Telephone Style.

Thus enableing smartphone makers to finally break into the “feature” phone market, where users want a smartphone but don’t want to be locked into a two (2) years contract. Such smartphones would possibly be cheap enough to even enter the Jamaica market in the distant future and thus be another potential Cloud-Based application for Digicel Cloud-Based Servers as stated in my Geezam Blog article entitled “Digicel’s Cloud Backup Services – A deep Analysis” and my blog article entitled “Digicel Cloud Backup Service and future Cloud-Based Services - V.S Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas”

Especially now, with a Recession looming and eroding Consumer confidence and thus spending power predicted in my blog article entitled “EU, USA and the Second Recession - Economist Dennis Chung's Andromeda and The Long Night”.