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  • Samsung seems to be making concessions alot lately. They have given up alot of services to push MS products. I personally only use Windows computers but thats were it ends, with no MS software in use. There is literally nothing that MS offers that I like or use. The fact that I cant take off MS stuff off of my Samsung products is disappointing. I personally didnt mind their OS and thought it was well polished. I do realize that MS has Samsung over a barrel with patents. I think that Samsung pays them several hundred million dollars a year.

  • Sweet! Now put the SD card slot back on the phones and I’ll stick with Samsung on my next upgrade. Otherwise I’m moving to a new brand after 10 years of exclusively Samsung smartphones.

  • My guess is Samsung has seen previews of where Wear OS is going with FitBit integration and a bigger push for Google Assistant. More capable chips.

    Am I right in saying Tiezen has stalked developmentally speaking? As has Apple? No ‘game changing’ features. Blah blah blah. Fitbit is the bar for health monitoring. Merge that with Wear OS and Google assistant, and you truly have a ‘game changer’.

  • The vast majority of the average consumers have no clue about Tizen or wear OS or anything of that sort.

  • All I want is a Pixel Watch to rival the Apple Watch. It’s a gaping hole in the Google ecosystem. Neither Wear OS nor Fitbit OS are up to the challenge currently so Google needs to make some bold moves and soon. I’ve been holding off on buying the new Pixel specifically because a good smartwatch is important to me and I may jump ship to iOS for it.

  • Hopefully they are partnering with Google and Fitbit to improve the user experience… the Samsung UI with Android App support (YouTube music GPay) all I want, well that and a top end Pixel.

  • Don’t really care as long as they figure out how to continue to improve battery life and improve the sensors. The HRM on my Watch 3 has had issues, worked fine the first few months I had it but now It registers HR about 10% of the time while I’m on a jog or a walk (and yes, it’s set to measure continuously, and it’s snug on my wrist)…I’ll get back to find it only recorded 5 min of hr in a 60 min jog…irritating.

  • The only reason why I would think Samsung would do this is if Google is making some pretty massive behind the scenes moves for wear and Samsung thinks it’s good enough to not affect the user experience for their devices and would significantly lower their own development costs.

  • Maybe it has something to do with Googles purchase of Fitbit and the newly released 4100+ chipset? Perhaps the combo shows promise if Samsung and google collaborate on fixing WearOS with these new tools

  • Wear OS is a much better OS than Tizen. With Tizen, you can’t really interact with notifications, you don’t get the full notification, etc. What Tizen does 10x better than Wear OS is performance and battery. I was really impressed with the battery of my Galaxy Watch Active, but I just hated the actual OS. I hope Samsung can figure out how to get better performance and battery life out of Wear OS.

  • Much ado about nothing, really. Wear OS is all but dead, and that’s not changing anytime soon.

  • I can think of one solid reason why Samsung would adopt this approach and it is third-party app integration. I own a Samsung Active 2 and I do agree with the sentiment that it is a solid platform, however, there is one particular golf app that is not available to Tizen platform but is to Wear OS and IOS. The app developer acknowledged that it was not actively working to develop for Samsung’s in house Tizen OS. Having a Wear OS platform provides Samsung a vehicle for greater adoption.

    • Are you referring to arccos? Because the lack of support is one of the main reasons I have not considered a smartwatch purchase recently.

  • I am honestly not sure I believe this BUT stranger things have happened. A sign of closer ties between Samsung & Google? Or Google is basically giving up on Wear OS and going to let Samsung Tizen-ify it?

    Starting with, oh, the Galaxy Watch 2 or the Active 2, Samsung REALLY got their wearables finely polished and working smoothly. Certainly more compelling than Wear OS and its awful performance.

    • Would not hold my breath. I’ve noticed Samsung abandons their watches relatively quickly. The original Galaxy Watch which has the same processor as the Galaxy Watch 3 has not seen a big update in over two years. It basically got one when the original Galaxy Watch Active came out and that was about it.

  • i would not assume wear os without some new announcement from google on actual wear os support…. could be a samsung build of android for wearables…

  • “Why would Samsung ditch it for Google’s platform? It makes zero sense to me in this moment.”

    Ummm….app support?
    Tizen is a fine OS, UI wise but the app support is terrible.

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    • Samsung seems to have a new direction for the future. They have backed off of smartthings too. Curious to see what their cooking up. Seems to be alotta collabing with google.

      • Samsung is not backing off Smartthings, but they actually improved much more recently with integration with Google Home, Smartthings Find, Galaxy Find Network, and Smartthings on Android Auto.

        • But they have given all product manufacturing to Aeotec. Im not saying they killed smartthings but their direction is different from when smartthings launched. They even changed the smartthings page to more of a developer page instead of consumer based.

        • Now they have discontinued the ADT smartthings hub and Nvidia Shield Link! They wont work after June 1 adt and June 30 Shield link.

    • Yup, nail on head….now Google also sweetened the deal with some $$$ and fitbit access. lol

      That’s how Sony won the BluRay war against HD-DVD

        • Maybe that helped but you may have that confused with VHS vs BetaMax. Sony lost when porn with VHS back in the day.

          WB went with Blu-ray after their deal with Sony. Originally WB had both versions for their studios.

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