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First Tizen tablet ships to developers
- aray 13y agoLooks like this is just a developer device (carriers wont be carrying it), but Tizen phones are set to launch before the end of the year. With Firefox OS, Ubuntu Phone, and MeeGo/Sailfish, it seems that other open source mobile OSes are getting traction. At the very least manufacturers and carriers want to work with them enough to ship products.
- tsunamifury 13y agoTizen phones won't be launching until January at the earliest. None of these phones are gaining even remote amounts of traction. Even the Blackberry 10 launch is an order of magnitude more successful than even the most successful open source OS you've listed here. There is a lot of positive talk form techies and insiders about these devices, but I have yet to encounter a customer in the real world who is even aware of any of these devices, let alone interested.
- pessimizer 13y agoWho cares? Make them rock-solid, overpowered, and charge $1000 for them. Sell them to techies and insiders.
- Pxtl 13y agoYup. Until a big brand-name jumps on one of the new free OS platforms and starts pushing a device hard, the public isn't going to care. If, say, Sony decided to commit hard to Tizen then you might start hearing about it. Samsung is going to be testing the water very gently because they're so heavily committed to Android, and they're co-steering Tizen.
- Apocryphon 13y agoPresumably, any real world customers are likely to be those in developing markets.
- pjmlp 13y agoNot only that, but Tizen development seems not to be that important after all, http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/10/samsung-slowing-tizen http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/10/samsung-slowing-tizen
- gexla 13y agoYou would need to travel to Asia. And of course, there are huge markets for smartphones in Asia. I haven't seen any of these yet either, but I have seen a lot of fakes, knockoffs, and a bunch of other generally weird stuff. Edit: Actually, we probably won't see them for a while simply because they are largely just getting started. My point in mentioning Asia is that a lot of weird phones and electronics come out of China and spread to the surrounding regions.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoWhy is CloudFlare such a piece of shit?
- wil421 13y agoIs that is what is happening. Long page load then once the page was loaded, it refreshed and loaded slowly again.
- duaneb 13y agoI've gotta wonder, why are all these OS manufacturers going with HTML5? Wasn't that already tried with WebOS? And FirefoxOS? Where do they imagine to fit in the market?
- k_bx 13y agoI think FirefoxOS is doing quite well. And as one of showcases of "HTML5 power" for me was this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Bxg1UJVf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Bxg1UJVf0
- duaneb 13y agoThe problem isn't with HTML5—as a consumer, I love it—it's that it's the ONLY way to interact with the system. HTML may be powerful these days but using javascript is still like eating nails, and compiling to javascript has many years to go before it's competitive with native in terms of resources. I.e. even though it's very attractive as the software company who has to maintain these platforms, HTML5 holds nothing for me: it's a wholly unpleasant development platform that has an absolutely absurd amount of money and man years behind it. Also, as a note, I think it's unhealthy to design phones to be closed off from the beginning. Apps are only a small subset of potential things to do with a computer.
- viraptor 13y agoWebos platforms went down for reasons unrelated the software platform itself. I don't think I ever heard any serious critique of it to be honest. Even Enyo has been separated into its own project and doing ok. I quite like developing with it and would like to use something similar in the future.
- soperj 13y agoThen they can all use each other's apps. No lock in is nice.
- doublerebel 13y agoYes, for instance Appcelerator's Titanium compiles to Tizen. HTML can be awkward but the web stack can be compiled to from a number of established frameworks.