Li Ka-shing predicts new operating system to unveil Samsung platform dream looms

Yesterday (November 28), Li Ka-shing, chairman of Cheung Kong Industrial group, said in an interview with the southern press that there would soon be a new operating system in addition to Apple (iOS) and Android. The argument draws speculation: what is the "new operating system"?

The daily economic news reporter found that last September, Li Ka-shing and Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee met, promised to strengthen cooperation in mobile phones and networks. Foreign media sources say Samsung recently launched its own operating system Tizen in South Korea and is likely to launch its first smartphone in January next year.

Some insiders believe that Tizen hidden behind another giant intel, Intel wants to work with Samsung to seize the mobile chip market to complete the transformation, Samsung hopes to build a rival to Apple and Google ecosystem.

Samsung's "Platform Dream"

The High-tech investment is a keen area for Li Ka-shing, which, as a pioneer in 3G operations around the world, began to layout 4G networks as early as 2011. Public information shows that ZTE, Huawei and HI3G (Hutchison Whampoa subsidiaries) have signed LTE commercial contracts to deploy 2.6GHZLTETDD/FDD networks in Sweden and Denmark.

Holding the huge operator resources of Li Ka-shing, hand-operating system manufacturers to seize the market is logical. Last September, Li Ka-shing met Lee Kun-hee in Hong Kong. It is reported that Li Ka-shing and Lee Kun-hee at the luncheon meeting on mobile phones, manufacturing and engineering and other areas of cooperation in the discussion, and Huang spokesman confirmed the news. The two pledged to strengthen cooperation on mobile phones and the Internet.

Gartner, a market research firm, reported that the total number of smartphones shipped on Google's Android operating system in the third quarter reached 205 million, accounting for 81.9% of the smartphone market, with Samsung smartphone shipments reaching 80.357 million, and market share reaching 32.1%.

Behind the bright track record, over-reliance on Android has left Samsung with a huge risk of uncertainty. Google said in 2012 that Android would be available to anyone for free within 5 years, but it also implied that 5 years later the Android system might not be free.

As the leading company in the electronics industry, Samsung has the ability to build its own operating system to achieve Apple, Google-like ecosystems.

Based on this, Samsung has always had an operating system platform dream, before the Bada test, the existing Tizen.

Intel's mobile Dream

Samsung announced in September 2011 that it would work with Intel to create a new Open-source operating system, Tizen, based on Linux. Currently, the Tizen Alliance includes 12 companies such as Intel, Sprintnextel, Panasonic, Huawei, DoCoMo and Vodafone.

"The birth of Tizen is not a war against Google, perhaps as a back-up system, to prove to the industry that Samsung has its own operating system," in an interview with the Daily Economic news reporter, Sun Yongjie, an IT commentator, said that in the current situation, Samsung would not rashly borrow the new operating system to get rid of Google Because the Tizen system does not have a perfect mobile phone application of the ecological environment, but the possession of Tizen will reduce the excessive reliance on Android, into the attack, can be kept.

Intel in the Tizen Alliance has a broader goal. In the Mobile world, Intel is still in the process of transformation. Despite the two years of Intel's process-and-architectural innovations that have increased the energy consumption of chips, and have courted Motorola, Lenovo, ZTE and others to use their own chips in their handsets, the results are less than ideal last year in a market share of less than 1% of the smartphone market.

The chip giant's slow response to the "mobile revolution", left behind by key rivals, and the push for a successful platform to replace Android may be a big boost for the company's mobile sector.

Motorola's "Low-end Dream"

Although the first launch of the Tizen system mobile phone market time is not known, but, from the now announced Tizen system characteristics, the system seems to be targeting the market positioning of low-end machine market. With the foundation of Samsung's networking business, and the wealth of home appliance products, if the product to achieve interoperability, the smartphone and family life more closely linked, Samsung will likely usher in a new round of outbreak of growth.

At present, the relationship between Google and Samsung is more subtle. Google does not want a single Samsung, the incorporation of Motorola to prepare for a rainy. Samsung wants to gain further power of discourse and control with its market share. Both sides struggled in the game.

November 13, Google's Motorola launched a low-end market for mobile phone motog, intended to seize the low-end market. In addition, Motorola CEO Woodward said meaningfully to the media that the company may launch a lower-end product in the future, after all, "in the alphabet, G before there are many letters."