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> Tizen will almost certainly not be open, nor inspire the modding community the way Android does. Android was made to be an OS on everything. Tizen is a glorified Feature Phone OS. It's a step backwards for consumers, but Samsung will shove it down our throats anyways.
You obviously haven't done much research on Tizen. Tizen is completely open source and officially sponsored by the Linux Foundation. It's been built as base platform for creating OSs for smart phones, tablets, in-vehicle infotainment, TVs, netbooks, etc. It most certainly is NOT a "glorified Feature Phone OS". It's also not solely a Samsung project, but Samsung is the first to build a full featured smartphone using the core Tizen platform plus it's own branding on top.
[Source https://www.tizen.org/about https://www.tizen.org/about/devices https://www.tizenassociation.org/members/]
The bootloader has been unbroken on the RAZRs, I look forward to running Tizen on mine.
https://www.tizen.org/conference
Agenda (PDF!): http://www.tizen.org/sites/default/files/pages/tdc2012_schedule_web_final.pdf
The Tizen community seems to be pretty closed-down to outsiders, unless you are a big company. Combined with the lackluster documentation (I can't actually find anything worthwile in the Wiki) and source code releases (everything squashed into a single commit, wtf? example) I don't see this going anywhere.
And after the whole Maemo/Meego/Mer debacle I very much hope it won't go anywhere.
Huawei has Hongmeng OS (Linux based):
https://www.huaweicentral.com/here-are-some-more-details-on-huaweis-future-os/
Samsung has Tizen (Linux based):
HMD, just no. It is a small marketing and design unit leveraging Foxconn manufacturing. They are ex-Nokia -- once burnt by OS development, twice shy. If they really wanted (and they don't, as this ban plays to their sales) they could just license Sailfish OS (Linux based)
But Korea and China are not exactly friends. Neither is Samsung and Huawei. They are fierce competitors.
It is very unlikely that any non-Chinese Android licensees will form any kind of alternative alliance, on top of the existing ones.
As noted there, they are supposedly the biggest contributor to Mer Project (which is a MeeGo legacy project). Not sure how much they use of Nemo, but the default user name for Jolla is "nemo". Of course, as long as there are no other distributions using Mer, they're one of the few people who benefit from this. (Some code may be shared with Tizen.)
yeah, because the projects Apple mentions are in direct relation to their company size and usage of other OSS projects. /s
Sorry, but every Apple zealot who says "Apple does OSS too!" is just someone who doesn't know shit about what OSS means. Samsung, one of their competitors, does a much better job at this and even has its own open source mobile OS.
I agree that the number of apps is a bit low, and I miss a web frontend for the store. But if I search for "browser" in the store, I can find five different web browsers. I would link to them if there were a web frontend, but I'm not going to type their names like a caveman.
Tizen 3.0 should have been released last September, but it's still not available. With Tizen 2.3, native apps can't get the step count directly from the watch, so e.g. Watchmaker has a lot of fun to get the steps from Samsung Health on the phone. The step count must go from the watch to Samsung Health, to the Watchmaker app on the phone, and finally to the Watchmaker app on the watch. Don't have your phone with you? Sorry, no step count on the watch.
Also with Tizen 3.0 some of the limitations for web widgets might get dropped. E.g. now they can't be more than 50 kB, they can't have a <hr> element (but a <div> with a border-top CSS style is ok), and similar nonsense. (I only dabbled with a widget that pulls a few numbers from my webserver - it was a bit frustrating.)
About three months ago, Tizen 3.0 for Wearables at least made its way to Tizen Studio.
I would have thought that would warrant an announcement on https://www.tizen.org/blogs/, but no, it's a wasteland.
I don't know - they have such a nice technology, but then they seem to be dropping the ball.
Yeah that's confusing. When i login to the portal, select my test application and view compile targets, this is what i see: http://imgur.com/ibqAE4e
Reading into Pokki, it sounds like a windows platform builder. Likewise tizen seems to be an html5 platform for tablets, phones and netbooks that utilize linux (i think). https://www.tizen.org/about
Ludei heavily pushes the mobile side of cocoon though.
More of a backgrounder/opinion piece, but it hits the highlights and gets you started.
Then there is Tizen.org
It is all about Samsung not playing second fiddle to the Googleplex.
Yes. It's for example part of Tizen and it's also popular on embedded systems. Ubuntu/Unity/Gnome/GTK+ might be popular on desktops but on embedded systems like printers, SmartTVs and IVIs people probably want to use something else. Enlightement is just about perfect fit for those.
MeeGo is (almost) dead and they've transitioned to Tizen.
https://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2011/whats-next-meego
In the meantime maybe you can do something like this (check out software versions before do anything):
http://wiki.meego.com/Vlc_Media_Player_Installation_in_MeeGo_Netbook
Was wondering if you ever found an answer for this, or perhaps a workaround. I did hear about an app called " ACL for Tizen” but it seems a bit dated and I’m not sure if it’s trustworthy.
Supposedly, Tizen Studio has a feature that allows APKs to work with Tizen but I have yet to find a straightforward answer about how it actually works.
Samsung did not made Tizen alone... it was a joint effort of many companies, heck even Intel and Panasonic joined the first developments... Galaxy phones does not use tizen at all... the main usage is on TVs but you can also install it on RPI or whatever you want
But neither EFL nor DALi use the Flora license - that "efl-modules" appears to be just some widget extensions which are probably completely unnecessary.
It's a bit like saying because there are "non-free" Debian packages, that completely eliminates Debian for most of the Linux community.
Not sure what "Unauthorized use or replication of external APIs is prohibited" actually means, but it's also definitely not on all its documentation pages (I am actually only seeing it on exactly one page https://docs.tizen.org/application/native/index ). All the documentation pages seem to link to https://www.tizen.org/content-license instead. And I am not really sure how relevant that warning is if the actual software packages don't have that restriction.
As a matter of fact there is a way to remove these (to a point). You can accomplish this by performing either a SmartHub or factory reset on your TV then pressing FF, 2, 8, 9, RW on your universal remote when the prompt to accept the terms and conditions pops up. This will instead prompt you to choose your country. If you choose a smaller country, such as the Cayman Islands, you will be pointed to a data set which contains much less bloatware. Some things are baked into the TV itself and cannot be removed such as YouTube, Netflix, web browser, and Prime Video if I remember correctly.
Don't try to use SDB, most of the commands are restricted when using retail firmware. It's a waste of your time.
I also had some success previously by changing the TV server from operating to development in the factory menu, but it caused more issues than it solved and I would advise against this.
If you're so inclined there is also a JavaScript file system API (use at your own risk): https://www.tizen.org/zh-hans/tv/web_device_api/filesystem?langredirect=1
Using GPLv2 for the Linux kernel instead of v3 was a mistake. The tragedy here is that the firmware running on the TV, Tizen, is nominally open source, which means people should be able install third-party forks of it with the malware removed. However, Samsung (and other manufacturers) use every trick -- balkanization, obfuscation, lack of documentation and probably using signed firmware -- to keep the public from exercising those rights.
Where are you reading this?
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Do you have a link or screenshot? Tizen's website doesn't even have a FAQ section. The offical Tizen site is https://www.tizen.org/about
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Note LITERALLY the first sentence.
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>Tizen is an open and flexible operating system built from the ground up to address the needs of all stakeholders of the mobile and connected device ecosystem, including device manufacturers, mobile operators, application developers and independent software vendors (ISVs).
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Really, give me a link, ANYTHING that say's it's forked Android. I'm not sure why you continue going down this path. Just correct your post and move on.
Gear S2 Classic. It looks nice, works good, battery lasts 2-3 days. Wireless charging works good, watch band is not proprietary - you can use any band with the correct width.
But it gets basically no updates. Tizen 3.0 should have been released a year ago, but it only recently was introduced for some new Gear devices. No information if the Gear S2 will ever get it. So we're stuck with pre-historic HTML/javascript support and developers have much fun to develop for Tizen. Tizen has a tiny market share, and Samsung is alienating the app developers even more by neglecting the "old" devices, i.e. older than one year. Also have a look at the official Tizen blog. Can you spot the Tizen 3.0 announcement?
Security updates? Forget it.
They have such a nice system, but they are neglecting it. This is the information about the Galaxy Apps store that you can get on the web.