Tizen has the potential to take significant market share from both Android and iOS. Since Google generates only a small percent of its revenues from Android, Tizen is not likely to have much impact on Google stock.
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Samsung is unlikely to pull the trigger and make a wholesale change to Tizen from Android.
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It is also difficult to tell if Altius is a Google Android based device or potentially a Tizen based device.
While analysts asked the questions w'ed like to hear more about on the earnings call -- software updates to Android phones, the future of Tizen -- the responses were predictably bland.
As Apple stalls, Samsung is pushing Tizen as an alternative to Android, which means the mobile OS and cross-platform advertising could shape up very differently by the end of 2013 than it did at the end of 2012, all of which means the time is now right for a supercharged ads platform.
Tizen offers Samsung several advantages over Android including hedging its bets against Google.
Phone carriers are likely to prefer Tizen because it offers more flexibility than Android.
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The latest news about Tizen is that it looks a lot like Android!
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Also shown off for the first time was Tizen, Samsung and Intel's alternative to Android.
Note: While Android is based on a Linux kernel, the goal behind Tizen seems to be an even more open-source, flexible OS designed to be user-friendly and carrier-friendly.
As IDC points out, Samsung also has its allegiances spread across Android, Windows Phone, and later this year, the Tizen platform, which, like Bada, is also based on Linux.
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The Android apps should move over as well thanks to the Application Compatibility Layer in Tizen with minimal work.
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But a few have also been tinkering with open-source platforms like Tizen (a collaboration between Samsung and Intel) Linux, GENIVI, and Android.
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Since Tizen offers phone carriers the ability to offer their own services in a manner that is far easier and more lucrative than Android, it is no wonder that major carriers across the world are jumping on board Tizen.
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