The Dhaka Times Desk Amid the ongoing legal hearings between Samsung and Apple over patents, much of their inside news is being revealed to the outside world. The latest surprise is that Samsung wants to abandon Android.
Among the many companies competing in the current smartphone market, Android is at the forefront. The most important role behind Android's progress is the distribution of open licenses. Android has licensed its operating system to any organization in the world without any specific organization, so it quickly took over the smartphone market. On the other hand, iOS and Windows Phone, which are next in the list, have been lagging far behind in the smartphone market due to their own company-based phones.
Last week, Samsung bought a document from an Apple sales executive to release confidential iPhone documents in its ongoing legal battle. It can be seen that the Apple company is thinking about how to increase the competition with Android. This week Apple obtained a confidential document from a Samsung sales executive. Day by day Samsung's tablet sales rate is going down. According to internal documents, Samsung wants to abandon Android and compete with Android and Apple with its own operating system.
Here are some of the reasons why Samsung is going ahead with this decision in secret:
1. Samsung thinks Apple's average growth will be slightly slower. But their iPhone unit is progressing quite quickly. Their sales rate is 10 million per year. Samsung believes that the smartphone market of the future will be occupied by the iPhone.
2. Samsung is noticing that HTC is expanding its market in different directions. Although they are contractually associated with Android, they have also released Windows Phone in the market. Android's market capture policy has led to the licensing of many low-end companies that have released low-cost Android phones, most of which are low-end devices. As a result, consumers are slowly moving away from Android.
3. Moreover, Samsung is lagging behind in the competition to capture the market by bringing new compatible models of devices with Android every year. In 2011, Samsung was 30 days late in bringing their new Galaxy phones to Apple. Samsung does not want to face this problem in the future.
The latest news is that Samsung is looking to create a new operating system that caters to the needs of its customers. It can be said that this news will have a great impact on the smartphone market. Currently, the most popular Android operating system device is the Samsung Galaxy. If Samsung abandons Android, it will lose a large share of the Android smartphone market. As a result, this news is also a signal for Google. Samsung has already purchased the open operating system Tizen. It is a popular South Korean smartphone operating system.
Reference: BusinessInsider
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