Samsung Unlikely to Bring Tizen Devices to U.S.
Tizen will fail
Samsung is one of the biggest Android phone makers and sellers, I'm pretty sure they know how to do business and how an OS should work. They have developed innovative software, they were the first to allow users to run apps side-by-side. I also know they're not perfect, like any other company. Plus, it won't hurt the market to have another OS option available. So I say give them a chance before declaring it a total failure.
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I agree. Consider the difference between Google Chrome and Firefox.. When chrome first came out I used it but it quickly became bogged down with all of google's apps and widgetry. I much prefer firefox because it feels.. less guided by a marketing enterprise. Basically, it allows a crisper user experience.
I'm certain that the open-sourced Tizen will be ultimately preferable to Android once it has been on the market for some time. Because Google is a publicly traded company they will be forced to spawn non-stop "offerings" to try for ever-increasing profits.
There is nothing intrinsic to Android to make it superior. Therefore, in a contest, it is the entrant which is least fettered that shall be at advantage.
I'm certain that the open-sourced Tizen will be ultimately preferable to Android once it has been on the market for some time. Because Google is a publicly traded company they will be forced to spawn non-stop "offerings" to try for ever-increasing profits.
There is nothing intrinsic to Android to make it superior. Therefore, in a contest, it is the entrant which is least fettered that shall be at advantage.
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Samsung is the one guilty of just clogging their phones to death. TouchWiz is absolutely terrible in this regard- whereas stock Android is has actually matured into a splendidly designed OS that is now within spitting distance of iOS in terms of fluidity, you wouldn't know it using a Samsung product.
Or to sum it up, Google now has top-rate designers and engineers, Samsung does not.
Or to sum it up, Google now has top-rate designers and engineers, Samsung does not.
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The man has a point. Touchwiz really sucks he isn't kidding. I rooted my phone and removed touchwiz. Now running "Clean Rom" which is basically stock android with a few Samsung features that I actually want and use for my Note 2. Before the Root Touchwiz was always having issues and draining my phones battery for useless features I was not using.
It is all about stock Android.
It is all about stock Android.
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I must third and fourth that. Experiences on both GS4 and Galaxy Note 3 are awesome, even with Touchwiz.
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I'm on my second Samsung Android device with my Galaxy Note 3. And my wife got a GS4 at the same time. I must say that the experience is extremely fluid, though I must admit there is a little Samsung bloat. But still its eons beyond iOS, which looks like it borrowed it's ideas from a storyboard that was puked on by a designer and then crapped on by a developer.
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When a Tizen phone can cost $40 off contract, then yes there is a reason for somebody to buy that instead of an Android phone - and the world will finally be done with BREW MP and Series 40, the two great smartphone-pretenders, along with all of the other Java and BREW feature phones. As far as I understand it, this is what Tizen was designed for... to be put on the least expensive hardware available, but still have the basic core functionality of a fully-featured smartphone OS. Instead of throwing Java or BREW on a device that has a 400 MHz or faster processor inside (which they all seem to nowadays, no matter how basic), why not put Tizen on it and have it do so much more? In many parts of the world, this is all that many people are rea...
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Have you ever used a FireFox device? If not let me tell you a lil about them, yes they are "SmarthPhone's" 🤣 They are cheap also yes, but poeple rarely buy them.
I live in mexico where the Phone Industry is barely starting to grow, people here are jumping from their Nokia Flashlight phone's to Android, Apple, Windows etc... FireFox is availible for them to buy it but they don't, they preffer to pay an extra 15$ dollars and they get either a Windows or an Android.
Because you just can't do the same thing in a FireFox than in an android or even a windows, I get the idea of the company's trying to put different options for the people specially people with low income that want a smartphone and some people with actually buy them.
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I live in mexico where the Phone Industry is barely starting to grow, people here are jumping from their Nokia Flashlight phone's to Android, Apple, Windows etc... FireFox is availible for them to buy it but they don't, they preffer to pay an extra 15$ dollars and they get either a Windows or an Android.
Because you just can't do the same thing in a FireFox than in an android or even a windows, I get the idea of the company's trying to put different options for the people specially people with low income that want a smartphone and some people with actually buy them.
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Allow me to remind you that, at one point, people felt the same way about Android over Apple. The only way to find out is by experience, so don't take Fire Fox OS and Tizen for granted. These 2 OS's come from experienced companies. Give them a try first.
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That was when the only SmarthPhone was apple, people now have many many choice's now, but I get your point of view and I agree. I guess only time will tell.
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Only retards think Apple had the first Smartphone. Originally the larger form factor, more powerful, and fully featured phones were called PDA phones. When they started dumbing down PDA phone software so they could put it on useless form factors like flip phones, the result was called a smart phone.
When Apple originally released the iPhone, iOS was so far behind Windows Mobile 6 and Palm OS, that it was impossible to call their device a PDA phone. So, they called it what it was at the time, a smart phone. Then Apple's marketing took over and the entire class of PDA phones got re-branded as smart phones.
But Smartphones existed long before Apple knew what a cellphone was, and they (or something similar) will exist long after apples onc...
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When Apple originally released the iPhone, iOS was so far behind Windows Mobile 6 and Palm OS, that it was impossible to call their device a PDA phone. So, they called it what it was at the time, a smart phone. Then Apple's marketing took over and the entire class of PDA phones got re-branded as smart phones.
But Smartphones existed long before Apple knew what a cellphone was, and they (or something similar) will exist long after apples onc...
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When I talk about 'feature phones', I'm not talking about Android/iOS/Windows Phone, but I am talking largely about Java-based or BREW phones.
There are still some people in this world who use feature phones. I am one of them. I have used lots of smartphones in the past - like Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Symbian - and while I have played with Android devices and iPhones, I don't yet own a newer smartphone myself. I really miss Symbian. So I am not just talking about the emerging markets... I am a potential target for Tizen or Firefox OS because I don't have the money to be buying an Android or iOS device, or even a Windows Phone. I guess the only thing I wonder about is whether US carriers will bother to carry Tizen or Firefox de...
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There are still some people in this world who use feature phones. I am one of them. I have used lots of smartphones in the past - like Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Symbian - and while I have played with Android devices and iPhones, I don't yet own a newer smartphone myself. I really miss Symbian. So I am not just talking about the emerging markets... I am a potential target for Tizen or Firefox OS because I don't have the money to be buying an Android or iOS device, or even a Windows Phone. I guess the only thing I wonder about is whether US carriers will bother to carry Tizen or Firefox de...
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There are other PDA devices that don't have cellphone radios on them. I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't order one from New Egg with Firefox OS on it sometime in the near future for pretty cheap. And if you're considering going back to not having a cell phone anyway, the absence of a cellular radio doesn't sound like it would be a deal breaker for you.
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