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mirrorshades · on Dec 23, 2013

I don't think this is true bro. Android has taken over the world really means that Samsung has thrown 900 handsets at the market running Android. They want to home everything back in on themselves. Tizen is delayed but I seriously doubt that whatever new high-end Samsung phones drop, will have a hard time running whatever they've turned E into. I'm seriously looking forward to this.

I'd say your repeating a rumor. Impossible to tell until they release something, Samsung and Intel makes for one hell of a strong foundation for getting something besides Android off the ground.

Their phone is supposed to get shown at MWC 2014.

snogglethorpe · on Dec 23, 2013

There's no real reason for Samsung's success, though, other than lucky timing, some good pricing, and more recently, name recognition. Samsung makes decent phones but they're not particularly better than anybody else, and there are tons of other good Android phone manufacturers; Samsung could very easily be supplanted.

Moreover, Samsung has never been great at software. If they take over the bulk of their OS development, that may not bode well for the quality of the result.

If Samsung decides to strike out on their own without the support of the Android ecosystem, they could be in for a very rude awakening...

mirrorshades · on Nov 9, 2013

Facebook is pretty tiresome, for many of the reasons already beaten to death here. It's also nothing new, there were "social networks" long before MySpace, rewind to the 90s and there was the uber-cool MindVox, the less cool and old people version the Well. Nothing new here.

What strikes me is the simple fact that it's kind of useless. I don't need endless status updates of people I don't really know, if I need to find my friends or share something with them, there's this new thing called a smartphone, it has my Contacts, I can share whatever I want with them and not spend my time staring at endless scrolling ads and the flotsam of people's lives.