Samsung to open next year Tizen new product launch: Android We're not about

NetEase Science and technology news December 26, according to foreign media reports, Samsung plans to hold a new product launch next year, these products will be equipped with its own research and development of the Tizen operating system. The company has been hoping to get rid of its reliance on Google's Android system and go out of its own software development path. But after years of development, Samsung has only a few smart watches and digital cameras using the Tizen system. At present, Samsung is the only product of the new conference can be identified as a television set. While this may be welcomed by smart-home designers, Samsung's inability to release a Tizen-based mobile phone until now has cast doubt on its ability to build an important software that replaces Apple's iOS and Google's Android system. "To be honest, Samsung's self-developed Tizen system has so far not been very good," said Lee Min-hee, an analyst at Seoul im Investment and securities company, Li Minxi. I haven't seen any sign that Samsung has become one of the competitors in the software sector. Application developers say that until the Tizen system has a certain size of user base, they will have little incentive to develop innovative applications for the system, and if Samsung wants to persuade consumers to try to use its operating system, the attitude of application developers is considered critical. "I see it (Tizen) very similar to the Android system, but not a large user base," Eduardo Ribeiro, founder of Kazoowa.com, an application developer, said Eduardo Ribeiro. If so, developing applications for Tizen systems is difficult to profit. The performance of Samsung's new operating system on handsets has further questioned its future prospects. The company announced that it would launch a mobile phone with Tizen system in Russia in the third quarter of this year, but then canceled the plan, citing the need to further strengthen the Tizen ecosystem. Meanwhile, media with internal sources have been reporting for some time that a smartphone with a Tizen system will soon be launched in India. The latest news is the South Korean economic daily quoted insiders in Friday, said a low-end Tizen smartphone will be unveiled in India next January 18. Samsung declined to comment on the report. "We have been supporting the Tizen platform for a long time and we believe that Tizen is a good mobile platform for consumers to choose from," the company said. Software competition analyst says Tizen will try to occupy a place in the smartphone field. Android and iOS add up to 95.8% per cent of the market in the third quarter of this year, according to Gartner, a market research firm. Microsoft's Windows platform ranked third, but the market share lagged far behind the top two, only about 3%. Samsung's smartphones are currently running on the Android platform. Kalangit Core, a market research firm IDC analyst, Kiranjeet KaUR: Any operating system that wants to challenge iOS and Android is very difficult ... So Tizen wants to be successful, it needs to be very compelling in some ways. Samsung has more than 40,000 software developers worldwide, but its applications and content services have failed to stand out from many rivals, and the company is being forced to cut some projects. The company said in Friday that it would close the group messaging service Chaton next February, one of Samsung's distinctive services. Earlier this month, Samsung dissolved its Media Solutions center in South Korea, which is responsible for developing and launching software and content-related services. Samsung's global market share fell year-on-year in the third quarter of this year as competition from Chinese rivals intensified, and the company's ability to support Tizen in the smartphone sector is likely to fall. Still, Samsung is expected to speed up the development and deployment of Tizen, especially in the growing smart home sector. In this area, the operating system needs less computational power and may be a big advantage. A Samsung executive said last week that it plans to launch a TV set with Tizen systems next year, which will be welcomed by the smart home industry. Samsung declined to disclose the timing of the launch. In a statement, Samsung said the company remains committed to developing tizen ecosystems and will build a broad Tizen product category. (Chun)