The smartphone market is full of tech companies, that are constantly working to bring better options for their users. With the rise of various Chinese smartphone manufacturing companies, including Vivo, Oppo, Xiomi, the competition has also become tougher. Meanwhile, another Chinese tech giant, and the parent company of the famous video sharing app TikTok, ByteDance, is also planning to try its hands in smartphone manufacturing.
ByteDance is one of the most successful Internet technology company from China, founded in 2012 by tech entrepreneur Zhang Yiming. The company gets credit for many famous apps, including TikTok, Musical.ly, TopBuzz, Toutiao, etc.
There has been the latest trend for app makers to manufacture smartphones having in-built famous apps, the partnership of Meitu and Xiomi being the biggest example. This way, it becomes easy for the app makers to attract their app audience towards buying their home production smartphones. In a similar way, ByteDance may also bring a new smartphone that might have all its famous apps, including TikTok and even its unreleased music streaming app.
The news was first reported by Financial Times, citing two unnamed sources, but the company has still not given any comments on the news. In the January month this year, ByteDance joined hands with the smartphone manufacturing company Smartisan, which confirms it all. In fact, the company acquired a patent portfolio and even hired a few employees to work with from Smartisan. While after the deal, ByteDance said that the deal was to “explore the education business”, there are no chances that any of the two companies have ever worked in the field of education.
According to the news, it was a long time dream for Zhang Yiming to build a smartphone preloaded with ByteDance apps, but since we have already seen the cases with tech giants like Facebook and Amazon, it is difficult to say that this is a good idea for ByteDance. Though ByteDance’s apps are popular, people are already using apps by downloading them through app stores. The report from FT does not give any indication on the price, design or release date of the smartphone.
Additionally, ByteDance has been facing issues with the operations of its TikTok app, as it had faced a temporary ban in India. Also in the U.S., the Chinese companies are already struggling for their position. So, being a Chinese company, it may be difficult for ByteCode to expand its smartphone service in the U.S. too.
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