With 1 billion mobile phone users, China is poised to overtake the U.S. this year as the world's top smartphone market. Along with other mobile software makers, however, the region represents as
many challenges as opportunities for Google. For one, “China already has homegrown software that is trying to take on Android,” The Wall Street Journal writes. As company executives tell
WSJ: “Alibaba Group … is seeing stronger demand from handset makers for its Aliyun mobile operating software.”