What does everyone think of this? - Samsung could be ditching Android for Windows

[Karthik Naik]

For Windows Phone this is definitely good news, if it's true obviously.

But as a company for Samsung, this will be suicide. Samsung has it's own way of how it views a mobile OS should look like, that's why you see TouchWiz on Android.

Windows Phone would never allow for a fraction of what Samsung could do on Android, and this is exactly why Huwawei also didn't make Windows Phone again because they thought that WP didn't allow for much OEM creativity.

Android is what makes Samsung phones so great, and I'm pretty sure they won't move to Windows Phone until maybe the day WP gains more than 50% of the marketshare.

or tizen you forgot tizen,it copied soo many design cues from windows phone and android
they will probably make themselves another google

 

[WreckITRalph]

I would love a galaxy phone with Windows Phone on it.

 

[LTTG]

AHAHAHAHA is this a joke?

 

[salmanahmad]

or tizen you forgot tizen,it copied soo many design cues from windows phone and android
they will probably make themselves another google

I've never been interested in Tizen, neither have a lot of other people. Sure Samsung will obviously release versions of their phones running different OSes, but their main OS where they'll demo a lot of their features will always be Android, unless WP magically becomes extremely popular(unlikely) or people get really interested in Tizen(very unlikely).

Judging from screenshots of Tizen I just saw it seems to have borrowed inspiration of iOS.

But no point of bringing Google into this, or the argument of copying features or design cues, you'll start a flame war.

 

[Bodeanicus]

Everyone keeps bringing up Tizen. Tizen is dead. The CEO of Huawei said so. Android has won. It's the Windows of mobile. Ironic, isn't it, that Microsoft killed Linux on the desktop only to be caught sleeping here. Windows Phone is still around only to save face.

 

[a5cent]

Everyone keeps bringing up Tizen. Tizen is dead. The CEO of Huawei said so. Android has won. It's the Windows of mobile. Ironic, isn't it, that Microsoft killed Linux on the desktop only to be caught sleeping here. Windows Phone is still around only to save face.

If WP was only about saving face, then the recent change of CEO would have provided the perfect opportunity to kill it. We would already have heard about strategic shifts and a renewed focus on core competencies, and moved on...

That didn't happen however.

MS' mobile efforts (not just WP) are of strategic importance, and MS will continue investing in that area until they decide to ditch all of their consumer efforts and become a second IBM.

I agree about Tizen, although I'm not sure it was ever "alive". At this point, I see Tizen as a just-barely viable backup plan should Google and Samsung have a falling out. In Samsung's eyes, I suspect WP is the same thing with a different set of advantages and drawbacks.

 

[hlov]

No way, Samsung wont leave Android anytime soon, Google pushed them very hard when try to use Tizen, it simple won't happen

 

[fatclue_98]

I would love a galaxy phone with Windows Phone on it.

The Ativ Neo & Ativ SE series are virtually clones of the S3 & S4 respectively.