Samsung's 'OS of Everything' Tizen still has little to offer

As someone with a BADA Phone I can tell you that adopters of this will end up with nothing but large televisions, phones, and tablets.

I have Equipment from Sony, Philips, Pace, and Samsung and it is all the same. Once the "12 month" warranty is over there are usually no updates even when the hardware can cope with things just fine. None of them will release the source for any of the dead products either.

The only choice consumers have are to follow the sheep (Buy new every year) or use bulky PCs (not doable for the phone)..

As said, Unless it is able to support Google or Apple apps then it will just wither and die. Partially because developers will not develop, but also because (just like Bada) we will not see the OS updated.

I am going to look for the Logo, so I know what not to buy.

I got one of the Gear2s

and promptly sold it. It didn't work with any device I owned, so, even though I work at a wearable apps startup, it was useless. The NUC (what's in a name...) OTOH, looks to be useful.

>"smart home services, monitoring and controlling the functions and devices and features within your home and on your body, all together, connected, while you are at home or while you are remotely away halfway across the globe to the other side"

i don't want smart home services controlling my body functions and features remotely, thanks.

Could be a good drive for competition

Doesn't sound revolutionary does it? Sounds rather like a bunch of techies (I can say that, I am one) trying to fix a problem that may not exist, or actually be as big as they think it is.

Android took years to really hit the market in a big way, if you remember back versions 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and to some degree 1.6 were only really available on two to three handsets, so market penetration was slow really. Could be interesting to see if this has a three year plan on actually becoming a household name.

Whats more interesting is that this OS may develop and deliver new or amended capabilities that customers actually find useful. They will of course move over into the other two big OSs, so Tizen might be a nice R & D stream for Apple / Google.

I can't imagine that either of those players sees Tizen as a serious contender, which is a shame as a third player might drive competition / innovation a bit more.

I think the obsession with getting the same OS on multiple device types is silly. The future is about interoperability. Who cares what OS a device is running if it can talk to all your other devices in the same language?

Samsung may be trying to push for a closed ecosystem it controls, but the market won't let that happen. It is easier and cheaper to connect different OSs and devices using open protocols.

Tizen is just one more OS mobile developers will have to consider. Unless it can build significant market share ASAP or come up with some other must have killer feature it just going to be overlooked like Bada, the new BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone (sort of).

The world simply doesn't need another mobile OS.

Simple solution - dual boot.

All they need to do is make the high end devices either dual boot, or easy to swap system. Perhaps the OS on an extra microSD, (it would be nice if there was a software interface on board, similar to how a BIOS worked in DOS, etc.)

They could sell the device with a full android ROM (as in paying Royalties to MS, Google etc.) and a free Tizen ROM. Cheaper devices could come with a Tizen ROM and perhaps an Android lite ROM (without the bits that cost).

If Tizen is any good, it would catch on, if not, it wouldn't.

Sorry but I don't want Samsung ruling anything.

Can't we have an OS that is truly independent and stop these OEMs from all trying to lock you into their product range?

Whatever happened to interoperability and standards?

TIZEN

Don't misunderestimate me!

IOS & Android - Your greatest strength is your biggest weakness!

IOS & Android - Your greatest strength is your biggest weakness!

If you want current proof - see Tesco [HSBC market analyst David McCarthy said: 'Tesco looks like it is experiencing more than one million fewer customer visits per week on a like-for-like basis']

Suggestions are that Tesco is past its sell by date.

Remember when Apple itself was a basket case?

A USP would help

It looks dull and generic. A me-too OS. While it looks perfectly usable, they are going to need to do something special to break into a market as tough as this one.

Windows Phone has a fresh UI that did move the game on a bit from earlier versions of iOS, but even that has struggled to make an impact.

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