The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung 500 software developers from the Mobile department are assigned to other departments. It seems that the focus will be on developing new Tizen smartphones less.
Tizen
Tizen is, like Android, Linux-based operating system. This system will include developed by Intel and Samsung, and was originally designed for smartphones and tablets. Samsung has also released Tizen smartphones, but presumably in part because of a deal with Google chose to convert. Developing Tizen smartphones on the backburner
Samsung Tizen was primarily an exit strategy regarding Android. Samsung is in the field of smartphones and tablets become great with Android and Google and Samsung caused an uncomfortable situation. Samsung had a lot to spend as by far the largest manufacturer of Android devices, and Samsung was regarding the software depending on Google. Continue, including in the area of patents, a partnership both companies showed behind a future of Samsung stand. Android Both companies had some water into wine and rumored to be selling to Lenovo Motorola by Google and reducing their own software on Samsung phones have been part of this deal.
Wearables and other devices
Samsung would move the software developers to various departments, such as those for consumer electronics, televisions, networks and printers. The reason behind it, according to Samsung?
We want to improve competence in the field of software throughout the company. The focus will be on improving our competitiveness in the field of Internet of Things and to increase. Synergy of Tizen platform
We have seen that Samsung Tizen wants to work for in other products such as wearables. Samsung chose to the second generation of its smart watches, the Gear series, to provide Tizen. The first version of the smart watch originally ran on a modified version of Android. This was far from optimal and Samsung also saw opportunity Tizen to advance as the wearable platform of choice.
At the same time started with Google Android Wear, indeed the well-optimized version of Android for wearables. Samsung does have delivered by the Gear Live Wear an Android device, but now it seems to focus more on the use of Tizen for wearables. The question is primarily whether Samsung is large enough to make. Successful wearables platform Tizen Part of the success of Samsung with Android is that Android is used by many manufacturers, while Tizen currently only used by Samsung that.
Home automation
It seems now that the platform will be used for home automation applications. Used Samsung is heavily in expansions in the home automation world, and recently took over the company Smart Things. The company also introduced last week smart LED lamps in Europe. As for smart home applications is not really important, the operating system but it is important that different devices to work together. Samsung is working with Nest (and Google) and chip developer ARM.
It seems as yet so that Samsung is indeed no more intense commitment to Tizen for smartphones, but for wearables and home automation applications. In the television world, Samsung is successful because of its market dominance with its own SmartTV operating system, but the market for wearables is in such early stages that it choose its own solution, rather than a solution that is supported by many large businesses Wear as Android, somewhat of a gamble. We know that Samsung never happy his eggs in one basket explains, making new Wear Android devices from Samsung are far from excluded.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, via PocketNow
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