Are Wireless Carriers to Blame for Tizen Delay?

[exfileme]

Several wireless carriers have backed off from a Tizen launch.

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[nekromobo]

Now days mobile operating systems are like nuke's, a threat to established OS's that companies like Samsung and Nokia use to leverage and pressure to other companies. It's like Nokia Android, they probably have 2 man-team on the project and photoshop artist for @evleaks. Tizen is probably in the same league. I choose not to believe.

 

[digiex]

No... Android is to blame!

 

[schultzter]

If Samsung can't attract developers even after flashing around $50,000,000,0000 I wonder what Firefox OS and Ubuntu One are going to do?

 

[tvieson]

The problem is continued growth and development of an app. As a developer, do you really want to make the same app over and over. With the only difference being OS you code for? Of course you don't, its boring, and it slows down advancement.Then besides cross development, there is time to consider. As the saying goes, time is money. Besides Android and iOS being the 2 most popular OSes, there are also easier to code for. BlackBerry has been around for ever and at one time was the most popular phone to have, but nobody really codes for them. Probably because it takes to much time and its to complicated. Windows Phone has been slow to adopt apps I'm sure for the very same reason. That and the fact that they have such a confused vision of the software.Tizen is a new OS that is vastly unknown. Until this article I'd never heard of it. Do you as a developer use time, resources, and money to develop for an OS that may not make it out the door. Its just a logical business decision.

 

[zanny]

If Samsung can't attract developers even after flashing around $50,000,000,0000 I wonder what Firefox OS and Ubuntu One are going to do?

It isn't about finagling developers into writing apps for Tizen, it is a more broad movement to get developers writing apps in QML or html5. If you are already writing in either of those languages, and not Objective C / Java, then you are very likely to port your apps to Tizen / Ubuntu / Firefox if html5 / desktop / cars / etc because the overhead is minimal if you isolate your platform specific code (if you have any at all).

 

[teh_chem]

I am mostly ignorant to this proposed OS, but I'm torn. While more options fosters competition and (hopefully) better options for consumers, I think the last thing consumers want at the moment is yet another mobile operating system yielding more fragmentation.I find the windows mobile platform to be fairly appealing, but I can't bring myself to jump ship from android because it lacks so many of the features that are integrated into my daily usage (I guess google is to blame for that).

 

[zanny]

I am mostly ignorant to this proposed OS, but I'm torn. While more options fosters competition and (hopefully) better options for consumers, I think the last thing consumers want at the moment is yet another mobile operating system yielding more fragmentation.I find the windows mobile platform to be fairly appealing, but I can't bring myself to jump ship from android because it lacks so many of the features that are integrated into my daily usage (I guess google is to blame for that).

Tizen exists because Google controls Android with an iron fist. Even though the base OS is open source, they don't allow any outside contributions so they steer the project the way they want exclusively. The consequence is that players like Samsung want to tweak the experience, but if they just fork Android they just contribute right back to Googles market dominance and ability to shove them around with control of the Play Store.