Developers' economy sets to boom in China: Google executive

Galbraith and his team from Mountain View, California, spent two months meeting with Chinese mobile internet enterprises and app developers in the Chinese mainland.


"As we spend time with the WeChat team, I was really impressed to see the local talents in the industry and how good those teams are," Galbraith said.


According to Galbraith, as Chinese developers start to bring more innovation to rest of the world, it's hard to put a limit on the potential it will have in revolutionizing other markets and industries, just like it has transformed the whole industry in China.


Some of the other important tasks during his visit to China were to collect feedback as well as have further communications with the existing users of the company's developer-support platforms, such as "Cloud Platform" and the newly launched "Firebase", and understand requirements from the large amount of people.


Latest statistics from Google said that last year, Google Play, the digital distribution service operated and developed by the company, generated 1 billion 30-day active users in 190 countries and 65 billion app installs, contributing $7 billion profits to its developers.


"We do have a long list of the additional features that developers want to add to the product (Firebase), so we're at the process of busily adding new capabilities to it," said Galbraith.


Given the large amount of suggestions and requirements received from the developers, the toughest job for him was to select the best choices.


The article transsshipment from China Daily