3 out of 4 citizens use Google Android… Even when YouTube was disabled in December last year, daily paralysis
Google Korea announces “Use it on the desktop and the web” after 7 hours of releasing… User frown
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ji-in Hong = Google’s control over the’Google’s mobile ecosystem’, which has grown even more in the non-face-to-face era, has been proved again as numerous domestic users suffered from service failures caused by Google on the 23rd.
From this morning, the system app’WebView’ running on the Android operating system (OS) collided with existing apps such as KakaoTalk and Naver, and domestic users could not use their smartphones properly until an update was released in the afternoon.
In Korea, Google’s market share is unique compared to other major countries, so once an accident occurs, its impact is also different.
In the domestic mobile operating system (OS) share as of February this year, as compiled by Stat Counter, Google Android is 73.24%, far ahead of Apple’s iOS (26.38%).
In the same survey, the ratio of iOS is 60.75% in the United States and 65% in Japan, which is the opposite of that of Korea.
As the non-face-to-face transition is accelerating due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), almost everything is done on mobile. Nowadays, 3 out of 4 people live in the ecosystem created by Google.
Paradoxically, this is more noticeable in a situation where errors have occurred.
In December of last year, Google’s services, including YouTube, once caused obstacles, making the’non-face-to-face routine’ of domestic users paralyzed.
At that time, as the social distancing was strengthened due to the re-proliferation of Corona 19, YouTube, which had an explosive increase in city halls, became jammed in a situation where outside activities were difficult.
At that time, the failure that occurred again in just one month caused wider damage as not only YouTube but also Google’s various business services such as mail, calendar, and cloud simultaneously caused errors.
The social login function that accesses the Google account was also paralyzed, and some services that use this function also suffered damage.
Like this, Google’s influence in Korea is growing, but the response of the domestic branch is the level of frowning on users.
Google Korea didn’t even have a notice, let alone a solution, for 7 hours after the problem occurred on this day. In the meantime, users had to take emergency measures with’folk remedies’.
Finally, the notice that I posted was that “if a problem occurs, you can use the service in the desktop web environment of the app.”
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2021/03/23 18:14 sent