Samsung was just Tizen – homegrown Linux again pitched at n00bs

Is this the same tizen

that just over a month ago was reported as being 'the worst code I have ever seen' and thus full of security flaws?

https://9to5google.com/2017/04/04/samsung-tizen-security-holes/

and plenty of others as well.

If Samsung want this to be a 'noobies' phone and it gets pawned because of those holes won't that make those noobies think long and hard about going with Samsung for phones in the future?

Could this really be (yet) anothet footgun moment for Samsung?

Perhaps the Indian regulators will turn around and say, take this [redacted] somewhere else?

Sasmung Software?

From it's smart TV's spying on it's customers, to it installing duplicate uninstallable software for every Google service, to it's woeful TouchWiz UI.

People don't buy Samsung because they make great software. People buy Samsung because they have great marketing.

"for n00bz?"

That may be the case, but certainly not because of the hardware limitation. Heck, my 2 main work computer have less RAM than that, and comparable clock speed. My smartphone has about the same specs (a bit lighter on the CPU front) and still runs a virtie Debian that does pretty much all you can expect from a pocket computer. I don't see how hardware limitations could be seen as a bad point for the OS; quite the contrary actually: if it's running well on low-spec hardware, surely it's a sign of efficiency? (now Tizen may or may not be a piece of crap, but that's a different matter entirely).