Comment on Tencent: We Will Not Make Smart Phones by Basri Abdullah

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On 18th July, president of Tencent’s Mobile Internet Group, Liu Chengmin said at Tencent Marketing Effectiveness Conference that the company will not make smart phones. Liu has his own philosophy of mobile internet and smart phones. Smart Phones ≠Access to Mobile InternetData said that by the end of 2011, Chinese mobile web users had hit 359 million, which sounds to be an inspiring number to most. Why making own branded smart phones getting so popular all of a sudden? The logic most tech companies have in mind is that smart phones are the access to the mobile internet, i.e.