Samsung moving away from Android?

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.
[...]
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?

vincentroberts · 01-21-2012, 03:40 AM

I do not think that creating a new mobile platform "Bada" would be a bright idea for Samsung because Google's Android is the most popular smartphone OS and it takes much more time for a company to develop its own operating system than to use someone else's and sometime the company will lost huge amount of money.
All the best Samsung.

Haesslich · 01-21-2012, 12:39 PM

They were using Bada before they started the Galaxy S and other phones with their Wave phones, for example. The Bada is used more in their Asian phones... so they re not moving away from Android because of that. It's more they're trying to get others to move to Bada for their feature phones, they way people used Symbian.

RainingLemur · 01-24-2012, 12:34 PM

I can't really see them moving away from Android in the smartphone arena. Maybe something for their less-than-smartphones, definitely. Or maybe at the least trying to offer their OS as an alternative to Android, or something like that.

I guess I could also see something like this being their offering to pre-paid types, too.

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?

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01-21-2012, 03:40 AM	#2
vincentroberts Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: California Device: iPhone, Android	I do not think that creating a new mobile platform "Bada" would be a bright idea for Samsung because Google's Android is the most popular smartphone OS and it takes much more time for a company to develop its own operating system than to use someone else's and sometime the company will lost huge amount of money. All the best Samsung.

01-21-2012, 12:39 PM	#3
Haesslich Fanatic Posts: 567 Karma: 1138182 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Kobo Touch,Glo,Mini,Aura/HD/One,H20, Sony PRS-300/600, Kindle 3-PW	They were using Bada before they started the Galaxy S and other phones with their Wave phones, for example. The Bada is used more in their Asian phones... so they re not moving away from Android because of that. It's more they're trying to get others to move to Bada for their feature phones, they way people used Symbian.

01-24-2012, 12:34 PM	#4
RainingLemur Spork Connoisseur Posts: 2,355 Karma: 16780603 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Nook Color	I can't really see them moving away from Android in the smartphone arena. Maybe something for their less-than-smartphones, definitely. Or maybe at the least trying to offer their OS as an alternative to Android, or something like that. I guess I could also see something like this being their offering to pre-paid types, too.

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