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Trunkin on 26 February 2013
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dharh said:
Trunkin said:
dharh said:
Does anyone seriously think a new OS is gonna stop android anytime soon (obviously new interruptions can happen, but its too soon in the cycle for that)?

If Samsung tried to replace android with their own OS I can easily see an massive shift away from Samsung phones toward other android phones.

I dunno. I think a gargantuan manufacturer like Samsung could pose a bit of a threat to Google if they were to start seriously pushing their OS over Android. They control the majority of the smartphone market, and I somewhat doubt that the only reason people buy their phones is because of Android. If their OS proves to be good enough, I can easily see Samsung becoming the new Apple in the smartphone market, if not even bigger.

Of course, that's unlikely to happen if their OS turns out to be shit.


I think the time for that to happen has run its course. Nobody wants to rebuy a whole new set of apps, much less wait for them to get developed. Whatever new OS comes along is gonna have to already have a shit ton of apps already developed for it and the freebies that need to come from the OS developer need to be good enough for 95% of the users out there. I just don't see that happening without a multi-year mega push from Samsung.

They will need to learn how to develop a good OS, a good dev kit, spend multi years refining it and developing the baseline apps for it, and most likely will have to give anybody they hope to develop their apps for it time _and_ money.

I just don't see it.

Previous app purchases could pose a problem, but Android users are already known to buy less apps than users of other OS's. Samsung would have to have a good number of free or inexpensive apps ready from year one. It's impossible to reach Play Store levels quickly, but if they could get all the most popular ones, like Angry Birds, Youtube, a GOOD Email client, etc. early on, that would be a good first step. They'd have to make a huge marketing push, as well as give small developers extra incentive to develope for their platform as well. Perhaps strike a deal. Not to mention competing with Google's media store... It wouldn't come cheap, either, and you're right, it would take a number of years to get it off the ground, but I think Samsung is in a better position to do all of that then anyone else is at this point, if they really wanted to. Would it be profitable to go to such lengths to push a new OS when they're already in a good position with Android, though? I dunno.

I am pretty excited to see what they'll be bringing to the table.