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Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS (9to5google.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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'Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist'

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 months ago (9 children)

This is a huge problem for Samsung. This is proof they cannot maintain an OS, making them further dependent on Google. They chose a Linux compatible toolkit (EFL from Enlightenment) and tried making their own OS. It was terrible and filled with security holes.

I think they should rebase Tizen on PostMarketOS, as I don't believe Samsung can create their own base.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Of course they can't. It's gotten so bad they ship their TVs with antivirus on them. The only reason anyone uses their Android phones is they have the best hardware, most of their add-on software is just useless gimmicks people turn off. Tizen on watches was never going to work. Apple has a large enough ecosystem to attract app developers. Google has a large enough ecosystem to attract app developers. Samsung does not. Smartest thing they could do now is shut down their remaining software development. Ship the TVs with vanilla Google OS like LG, strip the bloatware off their phones, etc. They would lose face but their products would become way better.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t LG use WebOS?

Or at least they did three years ago when I wanted to buy a TV but everything was back ordered to he’ll…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My 2 LGs do use WebOS, but I never use it. I have a raspberry pi for one, and the other one is my laptops second screen, so everything is fed from the laptop. I never see the TV's OS

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