Yeah, why they don't enforce this is baffling. I can give them a break for letting their OEM's take their time with OS updates, but not requiring their OEM's to issue security patches is negligent.

Microsoft enforced that and OEMs decided they'd rather build Android phones than Windows Phone ones. The rest is history.

I think having an OS available for free was more relevant.

Yeah, it's not like Samsung can go make iOS phones. And I highly doubt any of these hardware OEMs could possibly pull off a software project that doesn't suck, let alone a whole OS and dev ecosystem.

Samsung already releases phones running Tizen to have a side bet against Android. The quality of software is not very important when your only competitor builds phones that are significantly more expensive.

Tizen is a joke for app developers, it was already rebooted so many times, no one serious would spend a second trying to target the platform.

1 - Meego reborn as Tizen

2 - Tizen gets the Bada C++ SDK, with its Symbian C++ like flavour

3 - Enlightment guys join Tizen

4 - C++ SDK gets kicked out and replaced by Enlightment C libraries

5 - Developers complain that Tizen 2.3 drops C++ and is a C only experience

6 - Samsung announces support for .NET Core as high level native Tizen tooling

Really, what SDK are they going to release next?!

There was also a period of only allowing "HTML5 apps" (during the jQuery era no less) if I remember it correctly.

It is still the case when targeting Tizen TV devices.