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I want it to succeed so badly because I was a huge fan of the Nokia N900 and the N9. But it won't. They haven't released the OS yet and it already feels dead in
by gareim 14y ago
I want it to succeed so badly because I was a huge fan of the Nokia N900 and the N9. But it won't. They haven't released the OS yet and it already feels dead in the water.
The first video I can find of "Tizen 2.0" on YouTube is from 3 months ago and shows a very slow interface. It resembles Android a lot, but Android is much faster as of 4.0+, so why would anyone use Tizen? There are no apps to showcase as well; if you're gonna make a new smartphone platform, get people to make apps.
There's nothing on the Tizen page that makes me think that developers will find any interest here. Combined with BBX OS and WP8 in addition to the already vibrant Android and iOS ecosystems, why would anyone make a Tizen app?
And so this is doomed to fail like Maemo/Meego, it seems. Maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe some company will once again adopt it and merge the code making it even more of a mongrel.
- shmerl 14y agoTizen suffers from the same problem as Meego did - too much corporate control and no open development whatsoever. If you liked N900/N9 and Maemo/Meego - you'll better like Mer and derivatives. They have more chances to succeed, since they don't suffer from the risk of some company pulling the plug from the whole project.
- rwmj 14y agoTizen suffers from the same problem as Meego did - too much corporate control and no open development whatsoever. Whoa hang on there .. compared to what? Android?
- shmerl 14y agoI compared Tizen and Meego. Meego development and direction was too tightly controlled by Nokia (and Intel). When they quit - the project fell apart. Community forked it as Mer (Meego Relaunched), which has open development. Mer however is only the core. End user distributions are based on it. So far there are Nemo, Plasma Active and Sailfish.
- capisce 14y agoIf you were a fan of the N9, wouldn't you rather want Sailfish OS to succeed then?
- gareim 14y agoI definitely would! I'm very interested in the first phones to be released, although I feel that consumers may be too entrenched already. But either way, I'd be interested. I only hope that there will be a way for me to try the OS on my SGS3 because I'm a broke college student. Actually, I never owned the N900 or N9. At the time, I was in high school and couldn't afford it, but I loved the phones regardless.
- diminoten 14y agoYeah, a new entry in this market needs the, "It sucks, but..." Without the 'but', it's never going to matter. The 'but' gets you a small following who will help polish an otherwise bad product, and maybe push it towards something competitive. Like you said, I don't even know what else I want my phone to do though, that wouldn't be possible in Android.