Re: The TIZEN Thread
Merged thread with tidying up redundant posts.
|
Re: The TIZEN Thread
|
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Rich poeple read here:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/huawe...ket-1408908924 Poor people read here: http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/25/r...wsj-interview/ Android and iOS...The rest is DOOMED :D |
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Warning: RANT ahead.
My Liveview died early because of the poor live quality. I found a cheap Gear2 and decided to buy it, so I've now experienced Tizen.... The political side: not good. The technical side: good, but certainly not an improvement. Please note these experiences come from the "Tizen Wearable" profile, which argably is a small subset of overall Tizen. It may be very different in the "other Tizens". In fact, this is my first complaint: there is no 'one' Tizen but many and each has personalities. There seems to be Tizen IVI, whichof which you cal already find 3.0 releases despite the fact 3.0 is the "promised eden" release on which they'll release roadmaps and other niceties, possibly because this is the Tizen Intel seems to be interested in. There is Tizen Mobile/Wearable, which is basically Samsung's pet, which seems to be still at version 2.2 with preview 2.3 releases being released. How huge is the rift between IVI and Mobile I don't know, but it seems large. On the other hand the separation between Mobile and Wearable seems completely artificial. Samsung seems to have free reign over Tizen Mobile/Wearable, in the same way Sailfish seems to do so over Mer these days. But Samsung is basically evil. For me it's quite an annoyance if they have "open development" and then refuse to even mention which versions/commits/tags were used to build the software packages in the actual released devices. Jolla sometimes shares this problem but at least you have the source DVDs. Samsung has however gone one step further in evilness. Their source dumps do not contain any Tizen packages. They will make patches to Tizen core frameworks and not release the source for those changes. They are allowed to do this because a) they basically own all tizen copyrights b) most Tizen packages are Apache licensed, ala Google. So Tizen is even more fake open source than Jolla is. Possibly even more fake than Android. In second place, Tizen is more "alien" to GNU/Linux than Maemo/Meego/Sailfish. Whenever Samsung can reinvent the wheel -- they reinvent it and overengineer it. Some concrete examples (again, I am completely biased from the wearable/mobile PoV):
Third, and this is strictly a Wearables thing. Samsung is keeping the protocol they use to talk between wearables and phones "propietary". What does that mean for the Tizen "wearable" profile, where half of the core applications depend on working communication with a phone? No problem! They just upload the closed source binary blobs to a Git repo and hope no one notices! Obviously those closed-source, propietary binary blobs are a build dependency of most of Tizen wearable. I am very unhappy with it. Basically I have to treat what runs on the Gear2 as a closed platform. Even if the device itself has an open bootloader... |
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Hmm...
Thanks for that ... good investigate post.. good to have that heads up... I was considering.... but now... after this... I'm going to avoid it like the plague. |
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Ironically, now it seems that the first Tizen smartphone that will make European/US markets is going to be a smart watch (with 3G):
Samsung's Gear S doesn't need a phone to get online or make calls |
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Quote:
I hate to say it, but Apple are the only ones who appear to understand wearables.You should never have to take a wearable off to charge or sync. Data should transmit wirelessly and automatically charge through kinetic motion - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21547947 |
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Quote:
To paraphrase Thom Holwerda: Quote:
|
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Quote:
|
Re: The TIZEN Thread
Quote:
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 18:39. |
vBulletin® Version 3.8.8