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Originally Posted by pl001
Actually, Samsung is going a step further and developing their own OS, Tizun, which is not based on Android at all.
Whether or not Tizun will be able to rival Android remains to be seen. However I don't think there is any doubt about their intentions. OEMs are no longer content to just sell hardware.
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What Samsung wants to do and will do are different things.
Samsung is behaving very true to form:
One variant of the new GS5 is expected to run Tizun.
Samsung knows the majority of the market will be Android's but spins out different versions of their kit hoping for the best. Meanwhile, Samsung's software record has been terrible so far; they know they can't depend on it just yet. Even Sony's had to embrace Android, and they've been far more stubborn than Samsung about software development.
On the nether hind, Amazon knows they can sell Kindles to people without being Android purists. The retail business is complex, but their hardware output isn't nearly as baroque as Samsung's.
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Three pages in and no one's noticed that the monkey shown below appears to have swallowed a rather small and chartreuse manbot? So
that's what happened to chambermonk's Nexus 7.1.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I know; and I'll get monkey mad if they don't upgrade my Fire HD.
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