Internal files show Samsung wants to abandon Android OS

The ongoing patent lawsuits between Apple and Samsung have involved a lot of valuable internal documents that ultimately allow outsiders to know what the two companies really think about their rivals. Samsung last week presented several documents drafted by Apple's sales team, which show how the iphone maker views its Android rivals. This week, Apple's documents show that Samsung tablet sales have been far below sales figures reported in the media in the past few years. The internal documents released today show how Samsung sees itself and Apple, as well as Google (Weibo) and other Android device manufacturers. Excerpts from these internal documents are summarized below: 1. Unsurprisingly, Samsung's biggest problem is slowing Apple's fast-growing momentum. With tens of millions of new iphone sales each year, Samsung says its future success depends on slowing the pace of Apple's growth. 2. Samsung has not seen HTC and other Android device manufacturers as allies. These internal documents point out that HTC's success lies in signing a number of mainstream operators at the same time, providing a unified look and feel for its variety of devices and creating a friendly, quality mobile phone for operators. 3. Samsung points out that its biggest internal problem is its weak brand and low quality. To underline these points, these internal documents also point to the probability that wireless carriers are three times times more likely to recommend Apple handsets to consumers than Samsung Galaxy handsets, and that more than 30 Samsung products were delayed in 2011 alone. 4. Although Samsung has been successful with the Android ecosystem, the company has been planning to abandon the platform for years and switch to its own operating system as soon as possible. The last point is likely to have a very big impact on the smartphone market. In Android, Samsung sells more equipment and gets more profits than any other vendor. If one company can be a competitor to Android and iOS, Samsung is definitely the company because it has enough resources and sales to guarantee it. So far, Samsung has used its Open-source operating system Tizen only on prototypes and smart watches. Whether the South Korean giant will challenge Google in the next few years will be a wait and see. The biggest hurdle Samsung needs to overcome is the number of Tizen applications. Now, users seem to be very cautious about moving to a platform with fewer new applications than iOS and Android. (Music compilation)