Samsung switched to WearOS because they realized their Tizen OS was a failure on smartwatches just as it was on smartphones. Growth was stagnating, their app ec

Samsung switched to WearOS because they realized their Tizen OS was a failure on smartwatches just as it was on smartphones. Growth was stagnating, their app ecosystem was dead and the development environment was a nightmares. So Samsung did what Samsung does best and saved face by convincing Google to say WearOS 3 was a collaboration between Google and Samsung. Samsung probably did contribute code, but there is no Tizen in WearOS nor were these OSs "merged" like some people claimed. Samsung abandoned Tizen because they saw the writing on the wall. They were spending millions developing an OS that wasn't growing for an app ecosystem that was dead.