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“The first condition for them to make that kind of decision is the number of devices, which is still small relative to Android or iOS.”
Developers should decide to enter the Tizen ecosystem based on their own decision. He adds: “That's why we designed the incentive program. “We have secured many key applications, and now it's time to move the focus more to ecosystem development."
“In two years, I think we have made many achievements,” explains Samsung's Head of Tizen Business Hokyu Choi to. We have secured many key applications, and now it's time to move the focus more to ecosystem development. To ensure the platform has access to the biggest apps - like WhatsApp, Facebook, or Temple Run 2 in the gaming category - Samsung has entered into strategic partnerships with many developers, offering some kind of special benefit or promotion.īut at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016, in an effort to build its catalogue further, Samsung announced the Tizen Mobile App Incentive Program.Īs part of this program, from February to October next year, the developers of the top 100 most downloaded apps on the Tizen Store at the end of each month will receive $10,000 each. These devices run entirely on the open Tizen OS and have access to apps and games via the Tizen Store. Its first, the Samsung Z1, launched in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal back in January 2015.įollowing this was the confusingly-named Z3, which launched exclusively in India in October 2015.Īnd most recently in August 2016, Samsung launched the Z2 handset in all of the above plus Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. Because until now, it's only launched three Tizen-powered smartphones and none have made it to the US or Europe. Samsung has long been calling its Linux-based operating system Tizen 'The OS of Everything'.Įverything, that is, except smartphones released in the West.