The $12 Gongkai Phone

The $12 Gongkai Phone « bunnie's blog

深センの明通数碼城で購入したという、12ドル携帯電話の分解記事。いくらなんでも驚異的な価格。

Welcome to the Galapagos of Chinese “open” source. I call it “gongkai” (公开). Gongkai is the transliteration of “open” as applied to “open source”. I feel it deserves a term of its own, as the phenomenon has grown beyond the so-called “shanzhai” (山寨) and is becoming a self-sustaining innovation ecosystem of its own.

部品の安さもあるが、中国らしいオープンソースエコシステムも。