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When you take the firm's recent release of a SmartThings-enabled Connect Home Wi-Fi hub into account, it becomes apparent that the firm has devised a plan to dominate the smart home market: it's going to use a universal operating system to ensure that all appliances can talk to each other.
It's a neat concept for sure, but will it work? Probably not. In order to succeed, Samsung will need to provide third-party manufacturers with an incentive to pre-load Tizen on their products; however, with Android leading the market, there's little reason for them to make the switch.
The report also notes that using an in-house operating system for future products is a lot more cost-effective for Samsung as it won't have to pay a substantial amount of royalties to other OS developers (cough, cough, Google, cough) whenever it developers a new appliance.
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