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Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Wonder whether Bada manages to avoid what Japan's carrier-owned MOAP and KCP platforms had become- once dominant in its home country, yet never managing to break outside and rapidly losing out to platforms that did attain global adoption.

In Germany Bada phones are quite popular, you see a lot of people with Wave models.

Can't confirm that, I haven't seen one in DE in the last year. All I see are Android, iPhone, Blackberries and old (feature) phones that are 3 years or older.

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Yet, despite the fast growth, I'm still having problems finding a Bada phone in the States. None of the major carriers seem to sell them. I've been looking for one for about a year now and it just seems that I would have to buy it directly from Samsung and not get a discount on my new plan discount. If Samsung could start entering the US market, I'm sure they would easily pass Windows Phone in sales.

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Microsoft would probably sell more of them if there were some decent phones on carriers besides AT&T. Last time I got a new phone, I wanted to go Windows Phone 7, but I'm sure as hell not switching to AT&T from Verizon for it.

It might help to some extent, but I think the fact that the iPhone was so successful while it was AT&T exclusive for so long proves that it's probably not the main issue.

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Germany Bada phones are quite popular, you see a lot of people with Wave models.

Can't confirm that, I haven't seen one in DE in the last year. All I see are Android, iPhone, Blackberries and old (feature) phones that are 3 years or older.

Here in Düsseldorf I do see quite a few, even among my circle of friends.

But the number of iPhones and Androids outnumbers them, that is clear.

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Yet they scraped it and moved on to Tizen[1]. While it's good that Tizen is linux based and open source, abandoning a perfectly good os(Bada)just in 2 years might not go well with it's app developers. They(devs) might think twice before developing for tizen now. Although Samsung seems to be planning to make bada open, I doubt it will get the same traction now. [1]https://www.tizen.org

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't confirm that, I haven't seen one in DE in the last year. All I see are Android, iPhone, Blackberries and old (feature) phones that are 3 years or older.

Here in Düsseldorf I do see quite a few, even among my circle of friends. But the number of iPhones and Androids outnumbers them, that is clear.

I am also in Duesseldorf and don't know a single person with a Bada phone :)

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Microsoft would probably sell more of them if there were some decent phones on carriers besides AT&T. Last time I got a new phone, I wanted to go Windows Phone 7, but I'm sure as hell not switching to AT&T from Verizon for it.

Hold your breath.

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Yet they scraped it and moved on to Tizen[1]. While it's good that Tizen is linux based and open source, abandoning a perfectly good os(Bada)just in 2 years might not go well with it's app developers. They(devs) might think twice before developing for tizen now. Although Samsung seems to be planning to make bada open, I doubt it will get the same traction now. [1] https://www.tizen.org

Bada apps will be able to run on Samsung's version of Tizen, so Samsung is dropping Bada in a fashion similar to how Apple dropped OS9.

Re: Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

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Samsung is the biggest cellphone maker in the world and they put Bada on a lot of their phones and 95% of the owners of these phones don't know what Bada is. This makes total sense numberwise, but doesn't say anything about Bada's popularity. It's totally like Symbian was the biggest "smartphone" OS just a couple of years ago, just because Nokia was the biggest cellphone maker. Guess how many Nokia owners knew the wo…

I doubt that the majority of mainstream Android phone owners know what kind of OS they have either. Maybe more than Symbian/Bada but still...
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