I'd love for there to be some more competition in mobile space, because currently there's just iOS and Android beating it out, and honestly, looking at the stats Android is crushing iOS flat.<p>It wont be long before we have a complete Android monoculture. And that is bad.<p>So far RIM's BlackBerry 10 and MS's Windows 8/RT ventures haven't made a single dent in the mobile space and we <i>do</i> need some serious competition to keep all players fit and the market healthy.<p>While I'll be honest and say I'd rather see something truly free and open like FirefoxOS gain traction, I'll be pragmatic and welcome any sort of competition as good. So I have to welcome Tizen as well on general principle.<p>All that said... I can't really say I feel very <i>excited</i> about this. I've yet to see a single Tizen device. I've yet to see a single presentation telling my why this is better than what we already have. Why this is something I should get invested in (neither as an OEM, developer nor user).<p>It's just a name which I associate absolutely nothing with.<p>If they are really serious about becoming a viable third option, they really need to up their marketing effort as they're not even on the radar of the techies.<p>And how does that speak well of their future chances of success?
This all nice and dandy, but can we install Tizen yet to any actual devices? Or even better, buy Tizen devices?<p>I mean, what am I going to do with a SDK for a platform that has not a single device even announced yet? Start building apps for something that <i>might</i> have users in what, 2015?
I've been rooting for Tizen (EFL on top of Linux) but it appears to be crap:<p><a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-13970_7-10015946.html" rel="nofollow">http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-13970_7-10015946.html</a>
The offset of Maemo that turned into Meego and now had another name change to Tizen. To be fair, Intel always knew they couldn't do this project alone, and when Nokia dropped support for Meego a few years ago, the whole project looked dead. Samsung came along, took up the mantel, and then rebranded the project to Tizen. Frankly, Meego prototype UI looked better.<p>Mobile carriers want something less restrictive than iOS and Windows Phone... but something that differentiates themselves from Android.
I don't get all the development... so is this like an html5 player ? linux + some webkit ? what's the novelty ?<p>Again a bunch of developers working for free on Samsung (20% of SK GDP) plan C mobile phone OS ?