Samsung to demo its 'newest Tizen devices' on February 23rd at MWC, starts sending out developer invites

"Majority" = new users. Out of that pie now? Not so much. Even the most luddite Galaxy Y Hello Kitty edition user by now are at least slightly inclined to find out what he/she's running on after probably 3 months of op. The "looks" subject will get thrown out of the kitchen faster than Gordon Ramsay yelling a profanity or 2 once the apps portfolio gets out in the open and be found wanting. Samsung at this moment can't even play their current Android initiative right (hint:- code ready, not as blank sheet as Tizen), their "S" efforts still buggy, haywire firmware rollout policy across too many devices and above all the proven yet failed Bada track record. /S II GT-I9100G, VanirAOSP [official] [nightlies] [4.4.2]

Yes but once again, what is the benefit to breaking that "monopoly". As far as Google is concerned, anyone can take the Android source and make what they want of it and hundreds have already done so. To break that monopoly without a real benefit, you're just solving a problem that does not exist. Is the supposed Android "monopoly" causing a problem that needs fixing?

android is free ..true but till when ? google has started closing system down cutting features like not allowing transfer of apps to sd card.. they have started charging for google services like play store etc.. who knows they won't turn into apple like ios in future. that's the con of monopoly .. you can do whatever you want.... that is why the mass corporate movement.. unfair advantage to 1 company while everyone becomes the puppet..

"it is supported by Samsung,Intel,nokia,adobe,eBay and more than other 30 companies." Heard this one before... From Maemo to MeeGo... look what happened to that? Nokia most of all are the prime useless example especially right now that they're out of their mobile devices' game as far as total authority goes and they're sure as hell won't lend an ounce of credibility to anything that can run counter to its WP umbrella program. Intel has the leverage and inherent trait to be OS agnostic, they can afford to half @55 this and leave when they want to again look at their Moblin -> Maemo -> MeeGo transitions. Still I don't blame them as they're still the only chip/hw side player that best contributes to Linux upstream until now and probably will always be down the road.

regarding meeego that stupid elop killed it .. let's not go there.. you are so wrong regarding nokia .. that wp umbrella belongs to Microsoft now.. nokia is independent now they can do whatever they want to do but they are a very small company now.. they invested in tizen in November 2013.. after their sale to ms.. that's where they want to go , and here maps will be sitting on tizen there is a big opportunity for them.. regarding past attempt it was only nokia and Intel before.. nokia ran into trouble and meego suffered now it is.. KONAMI, YoYo Games, and Goo Technologies; mobile carriers like NTT DoCoMo; hardware companies like Panasonic and Sharp; and, software giants like eBay, McAfee, TrendMicro, and TuneIn Radio. this is the biggest thing that is comming once again this is not a partnership project this is a corporate mass movement..