{"id":88030,"date":"1999-12-31T00:52:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/samsung-to-ditch-hero-os-android\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:52:00","slug":"samsung-to-ditch-hero-os-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/samsung-to-ditch-hero-os-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung To Ditch &#8216;Hero OS&#8217; Android?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye green man?<BR><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 align=right><TBODY><TR><TD height=300 width=300><A onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/20120619125633413b9.jpg', 'foo', 'width=400, height=449, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes');\" href=\"javascript:;\"><IMG border=0 src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/20120619125633413b9_300x300.jpg\"><\/A><BR>Click to enlarge<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE>Samsung&#8217;s new boss has indicated need to rev up its proprietary software and develop &#8220;unique platforms and ecosystems&#8221;, suggesting it may ditch the green man OS, Google Android. <BR><BR>&#8220;A particular focus must be given to serving new customer experience and value by strengthening soft capabilities in software, user experience, design, and solutions,&#8221; Kwon Oh-hyun, Samsung CEO, said in his first speech as boss. <BR><BR>&#8220;Our company is at an inflection point in our bid to be a genuine global number one&#8230;complacency will put us on the same path as the countless other companies that have faded into the mist,&#8221; Kwon said. <BR><BR>Kwon who took the top job at Samsung earlier this month has indicated the need to develop more in-house software capabilities if it is to maintain a firm lead in the mobile race, reports <A href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jFQo22JGWo_HYGAgzxzCFRlZIMeA?docId=CNG.00684b2530088fc1ff980d472826e0d5.871\">AFP<\/A>. <BR><BR>This warning comes as Samsung is now No. 1 phone maker globally since its collaboration with Android, knocking former leader Nokia off the top spot and seeing off rivals Apple too. <BR><BR>Samsung runs Android software on its smartphones as well as its tablet line, although it now developes devices running the Windows platform also. <BR><BR>But Sammy is still Google&#8217;s top Android brand, although the latter&#8217;s recent acquisition of Motorola may leave the Koreans feeling a tad insecure, though the Android maker has pledged nothing will change following the buyout. <BR><BR>Nearly all of the Korean giant&#8217;s successful mobiles have&nbsp;used Google&#8217;s OS including the&nbsp;Samsung Galaxy S II (and now III), as well as Galaxy mini. <BR><BR>Samsung already has its in-house Bada OS, released in 2010, which is used for low end &#8220;dumb&#8221; phones but has collaborated with Android since 2009. <BR><BR>Samsung has made <A href=\"http:\/\/www.smarthouse.com.au\/Phones\/Industry\/Q4S2H4F6?page=1\">no secret of the fact they are currently developing Tizen<\/A>, the Linux based OS, which fuses the Bada platform.<DIV style=page-break-before:always class=NFBreak contentEditable=false>&nbsp;<\/DIV>Tizen is based on MeeGo (the OS used on Nokia&#8217;s N9) and LiMo (Linux Mobile), and was created in collaboration with Intel.<BR><BR>Kwon&#8217;s aim for his company is to secure an &#8220;absolute lead&#8221; in the mobile market, he added. <BR><BR>Former Samsung boss Choi Gee-Sung who stepped down earlier this month is now in charge of strategy for the tech powerhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye green man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":93836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Samsung To Ditch &#039;Hero OS&#039; Android? 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