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murraypaul · 01-19-2012, 04:49 PM

From Reuters

"SEOUL/HELSINKI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to merge its own 'bada' mobile phone operating software with an open-source Tizen platform as the world's biggest smartphone maker seeks alternatives to Google's Android in its devices.
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Support by many handset manufacturers resulted in a more than 50 percent market share for Android, which then faded after Google unveiled its $12.5 billion offer for phone maker Motorola Mobility last year."

Does this make sense?
I thought Samsung had been by far the most successful of those deploying Android devices, it seems very risky to then move to a different OS and lose that base.
Wouldn't upgrading customers be more likely to switch to a different handset maker that would let them continue to use their existing Android apps, rather than to a new, incompatible, Samsung device?

01-19-2012, 04:49 PM	#1
murraypaul Interested Bystander Posts: 3,726 Karma: 19728152 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: Note 4, Kobo One	Samsung moving away from Android? From Reuters "SEOUL/HELSINKI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to merge its own 'bada' mobile phone operating software with an open-source Tizen platform as the world's biggest smartphone maker seeks alternatives to Google's Android in its devices. [...] Support by many handset manufacturers resulted in a more than 50 percent market share for Android, which then faded after Google unveiled its $12.5 billion offer for phone maker Motorola Mobility last year." Does this make sense? I thought Samsung had been by far the most successful of those deploying Android devices, it seems very risky to then move to a different OS and lose that base. Wouldn't upgrading customers be more likely to switch to a different handset maker that would let them continue to use their existing Android apps, rather than to a new, incompatible, Samsung device?