Samsung to shift from Android to Tizen OS for mobile devices: report

Samsung is trying to push its Tizen based chain in the Indian marker by steadily releasing cheaper mobile phones.

One of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers Samsung is expanding its Tizen OS in all company devices including smartphones in an attempt to reduce reliance on Google’s Android, according to a company executive.

According to a report on Korea Times, the executive, who wished not to be named, said a company has ‘no future’ without a pragmatic ecosystem. It’s a known fact that Google’s Android is used by a majority of smartphones and now that third-party developers are included, the platform is growing exponentially.

On the other hand, Apple, Samsung’s biggest rival in the mobile space, also has a ecosystem of its own, in-house iOS, which is also gaining significant thrust. Amid all this, Samsung is not only losing out on expanding its native OS but also depending heavily on Android.

The company were a tad late in developing its native ecosystem, said the executive added that “Samsung is doing much better now.”

Since the inception of Tiizen, the company has weaved a chain of applications surrounding it, including Android Pay on Samsung wearable devices. Currently, the company is trying to push its Tizen based chain in the Indian marker by steadily releasing cheaper mobile phones.

He also said that Samsung’s Tizen-powered phones are popular with Indian consumers and during the first quarter of this year, the company sold about 64 million phones there. Tizen, he feels, is proving its competitiveness over due course.

Hinting about more additions to TIzen, he said that more incentives and support will be added to Tizen developers but did not spill out the beans entirely.

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