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What about Tizen? Haven't been following it too closely, but isn't it a kind of descendant of the Meego platform in some sense?
by shandor 8y ago
What about Tizen? Haven't been following it too closely, but isn't it a kind of descendant of the Meego platform in some sense?
- Fnoord 8y agoThere's WebOS and Tizen. I haven't used either, but heard Tizen's codebase is abysmal. WebOS is by LG, Tizen is by Samsung. MeeGo was a combination of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo. I'm not sure what became of Intel's efforts after MeeGo. Sailfish is the successor of Maemo/MeeGo whereas Mer is an open source mobile Linux OS which Sailfish uses as base. Both utilise libhybris [1] for Android compatibility layer. Backwards compatibility = important; no apps / ecosystem = no users, and that curve is very steep. Another interesting effort I saw the other day is actually from Google. An effort to easily build an app which is easily ported to Android and iOS. That might directly benefit Android and Google most, but indirectly it could benefit libhybris users. I'm unsure how good Sailfish 3's Android compatibility is these days. It used to be Android 4.4 compatibility for a long time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_(software)
- ppseafield 8y agoTizen's license for its SDK is almost open source: you can't modify or distribute it. I have a Tizen smartwatch, and the app ecosystem is pretty poor. A while back Samsung released a Tizen phone to Indian (and Russian?) markets, but it wasn't much of a success.