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Looks like Samsung is getting serious about the Internet of Things — that is, engineering consumer electronics that can work and communicate with each other through the glorious use of internet. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has made the decision to move over 500 engineers out of their mobile division and into other areas of the company, including consumer electronics, TVs, network, printers and enterprise software.
What does this mean for their mobile software? We’re not entirely sure, but the move is being made to bolster their “competitive edge in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry and increase synergies for the Tizen platform.”
That line initially makes it sound like they want to focus on Tizen more than Android, but what it really means is that they want to help grow Tizen into a central operating system that they can use on all their smart products going forward. We’ve seen them make the transition to the operating system for most of their smart watches so we’re not surprised they want to explore other areas for its use.
As for the implications this move may have on their smartphone business? There might be none — Samsung’s Tizen efforts on smartphones simply aren’t going well. The Samsung Z, Samsung’s first Tizen phone, was delayed indefinitely after lack of consumer and developer interest, and there’s no telling if Samsung will ever look to explore the platform’s viability on smartphones down the line.
We wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Samsung isn’t willing to make a drastic move and drift away from using the world’s most popular operating system for their flagship phones and tablets. That said, there’s no reason not to continue to build Tizen up by using it on products where the operating system used doesn’t make a clear difference.
Here’s a hint Samsung. LET TIZEN DIE. STOP THE BLEEDING. REFOCUS THOSE ENGINEERS ON RIPPING TOUCHWIZ OUT BY THE ROOT.
Words of wisdom…
Quiet down Western submissive.
NO. Let Tizen come up and challenge the defective Andriod and ios. Improve its aesthetics.
Not an issue @ all, as SAMSUNG employs over 40,000 engineers worldwide in various departments.
The fact that they would re-assign 500 engineers to all things Tizen isn’t surprising.
Nothing here to indicate that SAMSUNG is on the verge of closing up shop w/Android.
They’re big enough to see through w/Tizen on the long-term & the global market is big enough to have both Android & Tizen products from SAMSUNG.
As many devices as SAMSUNG churns out annually, is anyone really concerned that they’ll go all-in on Tizen & abandon Android?
Not gonna happen, at least not in the foreseeable future………
Did you have to keep capitalizing “Samsung”?
YES I DID. ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
Yes, Samsung has many brain power!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXCITING H DESIGN!!!
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Oh, sorry… wrong confused Asian manufacturing company.
Very fat but Tizen must be made to give consumers more options.
Can’t wait until the commit to Tizen and then their mobile division implodes.
Yup…It’ll be the re-birth of the Samsung Instinct!
With how buggy their phone’s updates are they should have hired another 500 instead. The ones they have now don’t know what their doing.
Well finally, Intel was doing ALLL of the heavy lifting. Samsung kept being late and half-assed in their deliveries for Tizen as part of the relationship. Intel recently told them to bone up by moving a bunch of their software team OFF of Tizen.