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| Samsung effectively kills Tizen, Bada |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-22 19:54:46 |
| As Sammobile reports: "Samsung will not bring any kind of new Bada phones in the second half of 2012. Samsung's latest bada phones showed up last year at IFA 2011 in Berlin. Samsung showed the Wave3, Wave M and Wave Y, all those devices run on Bada version 2.0. The focus of Samsung in the second half of 2012 is fully on Windows Phone 8 and Android. Because the Windows Phone market is in the hands of Nokia they will try to get that share back. Samsung will also try to make their Android position better than before. Thanks to some new Galaxy products in the second half of 2012. Another sad thing is Samsung moved their first TIZEN OS devices to 2013. Samsung already gave away some developers devices with TIZEN 1.0. The only problem is the support from TIZEN itself." Tizen was a lost cause to begin with, and Bada, while actually pretty good, can easily be replaced by Android. As much as it sucks to lose two operating systems (don't kid yourselves - these are EOL messages), it makes sense from a business perspective. Next up: the TouchWiz team. |
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| Comment by shmerl |
| By shmerl on 2012-08-22 20:17:18 |
| I guess Jolla will come up with Linux handset earlier. Plus they are more interesting since they use Mer Core ( http://merproject.org ) which is community driven and openly developed, in contrast to Tizen which is developed completely behind closed doors (i.e. while the source is kind of available, only corporations decide all architectural details and direction). |
 - Score: 4 |
| As expected. |
| By moondevil on 2012-08-22 20:30:53 |
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As a former Nokia employee I wasn't expecting Tizen to go anywhere. Sadly, reality seems to confirm my expectations. |
| - Score: 6 |
| no surprise here |
| By plague on 2012-08-22 20:49:16 |
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I'm not the least bit surprised either.. The second I heard about Intel abandoning MeeGo, after Nokia already did, and starting again with Samsung with yet another approach, I knew it was a dead end.. Intel may have had a chance if they stuck with Moblin to this day (which, by the way, atleast had a decent name). But restarting time and time again, no that's not a receipe for success. So now what are Intel gonna do? Claim they have every intention on continuing Tizen without Samsung, just to drop it a bit later, again? |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: no surprise here |
| By shmerl on 2012-08-22 20:52:20 |
| No one stops Intel from contributing to Mer. |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: As expected. |
| By Bill Shooter of Bul on 2012-08-22 20:54:48 |
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Is it just me or should you not have any faith what-so-ever in any linux distribution that has Intel as one of its Corporate sponsors. First there was Moblin, then Meego, now Tizen. I'd say the same for Nokia, but Mameo shipped on products for a while. But that was old Nokia, before the stealth MS takeover. |
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| RE[2]: no surprise here |
| By plague on 2012-08-22 20:58:45 |
| Sure, but will they? I doubt it.. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: no surprise here |
| By viton on 2012-08-22 21:14:22 |
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> But restarting time and time again, no that's not a receipe for success. Why not? They have huge resources and unlikely to run out of names. |
| - Score: 6 |
| RE[3]: no surprise here |
| By shmerl on 2012-08-22 21:14:32 |
| I doubt it too so far. They want more corporate control, however that's exactly why Meego failed as a project, and Tizen has the same intrinsic risk. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: As expected. |
| By shmerl on 2012-08-22 21:17:27 |
| That could be the case if that distribution was community managed (like Meego's fork, Mer for example). But Intel and Nokia weren't just sponsors, they effectively fully controlled Meego, so naturally when they quit - it stopped as a project. |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE[2]: no surprise here |
| By plague on 2012-08-22 21:27:11 |
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Yea, but for it to be a success, it kind of has to be actually, you know, properly released sometime and used by, you know, lots of people.. If you just restart all the time with different "visions", you'll never get there, and eventually the entire project will just quietly cease to exist. |
| - Score: 2 |
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