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Would the other smartphone makers be happy that their OS be in control of a direct competitor? I would assume the first thing Samsung would do is to branch Android.
Most likely they will throw out Android alltogether, and move to what has been their "wartime airfield" - tizen, which they kept funded and alive all those years
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Most likely they will throw out Android alltogether, and move to what has been their "wartime airfield" - tizen, which they kept funded and alive all those years
Unlikely -- Tizen would be dead on arrival, being inferior in all ways to Android, including the app ecosystem.
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Could be a coincidence, but they got serious about Tizen a few weeks afterward.
Right, but did it lead to taking Tizen to the level it could replace Android? What I like about Samsung is that they do realize and accept that the software is not their forte. Hence Android.
I may be out of date, but I hated the last samsung phone I had because they did not realize this and subjected their users to touchwhizz.
The also need to improve at supporting their software and keeping android up to date.
They botched the Motorola acquisition and couldn’t find a way to integrate them in their mobile efforts even though both were American companies (with Moto having a significant presence right across from GOOG in the Valley). So now doing it all over again, with a Taiwan-based company is going to work better because...?
For example, they put in place a firewall to ensure that Motorola wouldn't have any advantages over other Android manufacturers. I don't expect them to do that again.
That being said, major acquisitions are hard and I expect it to fail once again. But they'll mostly make different mistakes rather than the same ones they made last time.
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Most likely they will throw out Android alltogether, and move to what has been their "wartime airfield" - tizen, which they kept funded and alive all those years
Unlikely -- Tizen would be dead on arrival, being inferior in all ways to Android, including the app ecosystem.
Would it matter when "an Android phone" means a Samsung phone 9 times out of 10 in Western markets
When an average American comes to Best Buy to buy a phone, he does not deliberate over things as abstract to him as OS of a phone. He sees an Apple phone, a Samsung phone, and a random Chinese phone.
They botched the Motorola acquisition and couldn’t find a way to integrate them in their mobile efforts even though both were American companies (with Moto having a significant presence right across from GOOG in the Valley). So now doing it all over again, with a Taiwan-based company is going to work better because...?
Pretty good deal IMO.
They botched the Motorola acquisition and couldn’t find a way to integrate them in their mobile efforts even though both were American companies (with Moto having a significant presence right across from GOOG in the Valley). So now doing it all over again, with a Taiwan-based company is going to work better because...?