How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth The history of personal computing is often told in terms of operating systems: the dramatic battle between IBM's DOS PC vs Apple's Macintosh; the emergence of fiefdoms of promising independents such as Amiga OS, NeXTSTEP and BeOS; and ultimately the crushing destruction of any PC OS competition under the homogenous, global and permanent rule of Microsoft's Windows platform. But these stories often resulted in inaccurate conclusions, because the OS platform wasn't the only important factor in picking winners and losers. Daniel Eran Dilger 6 years ago 65
Editorial: Following Fold fiasco, Samsung fields a flexible flip-phone At its annual Samsung Developer Conference, Google's leading Android licensee is working hard to be taken seriously as a software platform vendor on its own, highlighting Bixby, SmartThings, a closer copying of Apple's iOS appearance, and new plans to license Tizen OS to other TV makers. Yet most of its attention is centered on a few seconds of a video depicting the concept of a flip-phone. Daniel Eran Dilger 6 years ago 24
Apple TV trails behind Roku, other TV platforms in US device sales The Apple TV ranked low in U.S. sales of streaming TV devices during the March quarter, leaving it nowhere near rivals like Roku or Sony, according to new estimates. Roger Fingas 6 years ago 40
Researcher calls Samsung's Tizen OS "the worst code I've ever seen" Samsung's Tizen operating system is a mess of zero-day exploitable security flaws, broken encryption privacy issues and amateur-level coding mistakes, according to the findings of a security researcher participating in Kaspersky Lab's Security Analyst Summit. Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 87
IDC expects Apple Watch to dominate wearables market through 2019 Apple's dominance of the growing wearables market will continue for the foreseeable future, market research firm IDC projected on Thursday, forecasting that the Apple Watch will control the lion's share of the smartwatch market through the year 2019. Roger Fingas 10 years ago 11
Google and Samsung escalate hostilities over watches, Tizen and Android's openness Google is growing increasingly worried that Samsung, its largest licensee, is working to undermine its own strategy for Android, while Samsung and the rest of the industry is concerned that Google has become a "bully," according to a new report by The Information. Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 141
Samsung's Galaxy S4 displaced other Androids in U.S. but iPhone 5 adoption still faster A new report on North American adoption of smartphones found iPhone 5 gained users the fastest, building upon Apple's lead in U.S. and Canadian market share, but that Samsung phones displaced other Android devices, giving the Korean giant a plurality of Android's user base. Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 28
Samsung co-CEO pushes Tizen OS as more than a 'simple alternative for Android' As Samsung looks to lessen its reliance on Google's Android platform, the company views its own custom Tizen operating system as a viable alternative that could power the company's future flagship smartphones. Neil Hughes 12 years ago 172
Samsung's Tizen mobile OS could signal new competition for Apple's iOS, Google's Android Apple's iOS and Google's Android have so far dominated the latest wave of mobile computing. Now, Apple's chief rival Samsung appears to be prepping a big push behind its own operating system, one that could have the potential to truly shake up the mobile market where others have failed. Kevin Bostic 13 years ago 129
