WebOS OSE 2.10 - Hackdot

Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by rjzzleep on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:30PM (#26694728)

Tizen is about to be phased out of Samsung smartwatches. It's a bit unfortunate since battery life and a lot of other things are quite nice, but Samsung is really really really really bad at making developer friendly anything and pushing an open source firmware outside of their own borders which resulted in abysmal adoption and its ultimate demise.

Keep in mind that HP did the same with webOS, Sun with OpenSolaris etc. So, its not exclusive to Samsung, but rather big enterprise not understanding the outside world.

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Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by cycomanic on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:29AM (#26696244)

I actually blame apple. Essentially every one of those manufacturers wanted to replicate apples success in creating a walled garden instead of taking a different open approach. Essentially lack of visionary thinking.

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Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by sanxiyn on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:35PM (#26694747)

As you said Samsung is terrible at DevRel, but Tizen OS itself is now pretty good. Tizen's survival in medium term is assured since it ships in Samsung TVs.

On the other hand, I am not sure even stellar DevRel would have saved Tizen. Yes, Sun was terrible with OpenSolaris, but wasn't Joyent stellar with SmartOS (which is the same codebase)? That didn't make SmartOS very successful.

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Re:WebOS OSE 2.10 by pjmlp on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:25AM (#26695905)

They haven't learned the OS/2 lesson, making SmartOS great to run Linux based software doesn't make software shops go crazy to write with Solaris APIs.

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