The Meizu MX2 smartphone at an event in Hong Kong, December 2012. (Photo/CNS)
Chinese internet giant Alibaba and Zhuhai-based Meizu Technology are set to announce a new system for mobile phones which will adopt Alibaba's Yun OS 3.0–set to be released Oct. 20–as the base code for Meizu's Flyme OS on Oct. 21, reports Beijing-based news agency Caixin Online.
It has been widely reported that Alibaba approached Meizu several times with the intention to invest in the firm, but Meizu was resistant to Alibaba's attempt to take control of the firm's operations.
After the news that Alibaba would not invest in the company, Meizu's vice CEO Li Nan disclosed that Meizu would continue its collaboration with Alibaba on the mobile phone system.
Just as Alibaba started to promote the Yun OS 3.0 however, a war of words broke out on Sina Weibo–China's equivalent of Twitter–between Meizu's founder and CEO J. Wong and Alibaba's chief technology officer Wang Jian, which concluded with Wang on Oct. 12 betting 10 million yuan (US$1.6 million) that the Yun OS was just as good as the Flyme OS.
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