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Re:Huawei is working on its own mobile OS in case things sou... by exhilaration on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:12AM (#11960956)
Samsung is allegedly doing the same thing with Tizen: http://9to5google.com/2016/06/13/report-claims-that-samsung-...

I don't think this is likely to happen, it would destroy both Samsung's and Huawei's markets in the West. Perhaps Korean and Chinese consumers might switch to the new platforms but I can't see those of us in the Americas and Europe giving up our Google services.

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Re:Huawei is working on its own mobile OS in case things sou... by pjmlp on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:49AM (#11961288)
From native point of Tizen already had two reboots.

First it was based on Meego APIs, then it got the C++ dialect from BADA OS (very similar to Symbian) and now they rebooted it again using EFL + C, but adding another C++ API in the process.

Native is not always open to everyone, for example for TVs app developers can only use WebApps and need to become a partner for native code.

So I doubt that Tizen will ever get an app eco-system that people will bother to use.

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Re:Huawei is working on its own mobile OS in case things sou... by cwyers on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:36AM (#11961161)
I mean, you can buy a Tizen phone from Samsung right now:

http://www.samsung.com/in/consumer/mobile-devices/smartphone...

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