Send Us Tips!

Verizon CEO thinks Samsung should create its own mobile OS

22

by Macky Evangelista on
tagged , , , , ,

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam claims Samsung would be a huge player in the mobile OS market if it ever decided to jump and create it’s own OS. McAdam’s had plenty to say on Samsung’s potential in the mobile OS world:

There’s a potential elephant in the room with Samsung. Samsung is a massive conglomerate with the resources to pull off a strong third mobile platform. The company is already the largest handset and smartphone manufacturer in the world, and has a brand and clout that rivals Apple. Samsung could do well putting its resources behind an operating system and would be a clear dark horse.

On paper, this makes every bit of sense to assume and to say. Samsung has such a huge market share, and thanks to Google’s Android OS it is now the clear cut second most successful handset maker in the world, second to only Apple. Thus, Samsung creating their own mobile OS makes every bit of sense in the world.

While Samsung can certainly go that route if they choose to, I think they should stay right where they are and stick with Android. With iOS and Android the absolute top two mobile OS’, a 3rd would be a crowd in my opinion. Android is already great as it is and is only getting better as each firmware update is made. Plus, Android has created itself such a huge ecosystem with the Google Play Store and all of its offerings. No matter how big Samsung is, it’s very hard to build up a whole new ecosystem and have consumers jump on it. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but why leave such a good thing such as Android?

Let’s not forget how good Samsung has it with Android and their Galaxy S line. The Galaxy S III just surpassed 20 million units sold and is showing no signs of stopping any time soon.

What do you guys think, should Samsung continue giving us Android powerhouses such as the Galaxy S’ and Galaxy Note’s? Or should they venture out on their own with their never ending resources and create their own mobile OS? Sound off in the comments!

source: c| net

 

» See more articles by Macky Evangelista


Categorized as Android Carriers, Android News, Android Phones

  • t12lve

    what about BADA?

    • http://twitter.com/Dragoon512 Dragoon

      Just wanted to write about it :P Bada isn’t really good OS, there aren’t many apps for it, plus only few Sammy devices got it. It had a run with Avila, Monte and Wave line, but Android is the best, open, mobile OS for everyone today. Tizen will try to beat it soon, but until that happens, Android will own 70% of the market :) (IMO)

  • http://profiles.google.com/giuliocc Giulio Campobassi

    Sounds all well and good but where will the developers home from to build apps ? This is all wishful thinking unless you make app development worth the investment. Besides, Samsung have skills with android, competing against your own brand is risky if not downright dumb unless it defines a different market segment.

    • Open Remote

      Agreed. The barrier of learning a new platform is huge for developers. Leveraging existing skill-sets and building on a platform that is not constrained to a narrow field of application is the way to go.

      While it is true that more platforms is better for competition and innovation, developers do not want to be the ones to bear the cost of it. The only way more platforms become accepted is if cross-platform development tools get MUCH better than what they are today.

  • Chnng

    I agree with Lowell, Samsung should create their own OS to compete with Android, iOS and Windows. It will give consumers more choices.

  • SMK

    Samsung needs to definitely stay where they are. I love my Note, and looking forward to Note 2, but so sure I would buy their phone without the flexibility of the Android OS.

    • http://twitter.com/Mackster248 Macky Evangelista

      What you said is probably what 99% of everyone else thinks. Samsung makes some awesome products. Thus, their products paired with Android is as perfect as it can ever get.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000929193078 Dan Farfan

    “…
    create their own mobile OS?”

    Ummm… wrong question.
    Mr. Verizon had half a good idea.
    A legitimately next-gen OS (and why bother w/ another me-too this-gen OS?) won’t be just for mobile. Make it run on every/any chip you chose and make it fairly simple to port to the ones you select.

    The next OS is not a thing just to have.

    Which implies something very important, that the next OS actually pushes the ball down the computer science field regarding what an OS is. For all the adulation, distribution and hyperbole, iOS and Android don’t.

    Data center to desktop to mobile to cloud. The game afoot is to redefine computing itself using all the lessons learned from all that’s worked and not over the past 60+ years. A step in that exercise is to create a next-gen OS that makes all the good better and eliminates the bad all together.

    Anyone with about $50,000,000 could build a team and take a swing at the set of next-gen solutions that would not just lead but dominate tech for the next 50 years (think MSFT + Google + Oracle + Verizon), but they have to first understand the game and the end game. Which, as far as I can tell, no one (else) does. If Lowell McAdam did, for example, he’d be spending Verizon money to do it, not telling Samsung to. What’s $50MM to a behemoth like Verizon? Their travel budget for a year? lol

    As far as “Why would developers adopt a new platform?” Same reason as always, money. No one was sitting around in the early 90′s with nothing to do twiddling their thumbs hoping a new language would be published soon. Yet they magically found time to learn HTML (at various times, of course) And when that learning turned into a payday, they focused more and more resources on it.

    It’s a high bar the next-gen OS must clear, but it’s one of many (and far from the most challenging).

    @DanFarfan

  • Jude

    BADA. Omg how come he doesn’t know about it ?

    • ari_free

      Because it failed.

  • RTWright

    I agree that it sounds good and all, but it will not happen. It would be shooting themselves in the foot with a shotgun blast. Thing is, as others have pointed out, they have it so good with Android and have been THE most successful mobile company ( Not including the iFactor here ) in the Android market. What I do see happening however and I would welcome this whole heartily, is Google stepping up and taking Android to the Desktop.

    It’s something a lot of Linux OS makers have been wishing for. Having the kind of support to take their OS mainstream. Well…. Android is a form of Linux/Unix and IS mainstream already. The fear of putting it out and people having to learn how to use it, is long behind this OS. It’s on MILLIONS of devices already, people are using it on phones, tablets, cameras, radios, televisions, gaming systems, I mean, how much more can it grow without hitting the PC’s next?

    It has all kinds of Major Software Brand Support, all it would take is a bit of tweaking it up for use on a Desktop, not much, but a little here and there. It would be Desktop ready within a year’s time or less. Also, it has one of the biggest video hardware supporters nVidia backing it as well. Android has come a VERY long way since it first hit the mobile market. It’s expanded far beyond that and I would feel great having it as a Desktop OS.

    Apple and Mircosoft I’m sure see this quite clearly as a possibility. It could really shake some things up in the OS world, in a good way I think. Because it would make the other two have to do a much better job on theirs to keep people using them. Windows 7 has been great for me personally but it’s still got it’s flaws. Apple’s OS is pretty nice and all but I hate their interface ( Personal Preference there ) and has a few flaws onto itself. No one is perfect. But in this case a Third in the OS Arena would be great for making the other two play nice or…. Get very territorial about their positions.

    Either way I’d see this happening a lot more easily than for Samsung to come out with one and end up losing a lot more than they would gain. Main reason is contracts…. People who have bought their products ( Myself included ) are under 2 year contracts for the large majority, which means even if we wanted to? We couldn’t. So that would leave them with at least the first two years as a major loss in that field. I don’t see Samsung wanting that.

    • http://twitter.com/Mackster248 Macky Evangelista

      Interesting takan. I’d certainly welcome a desktop version of Android. Cn you imagine how much further that would grow Android? The possibilities man! But yes, Samsung should most definitely stick to Android. Why ruin such a good thing.

  • wirelessmodz

    Its called Bada what a dumbass

  • Tom

    I only own a galaxy because it’s running Android and I’d say there are many others like this.

    Unless Samsung created an ecosystem as big as Android and of course an IS that could compete with android or iPhone it’s a non runner…

  • anon

    Wonder what verizon has to gain here.

  • anon

    Samsung can barely keep the crap they put on top of android up to date. I bet if they started a new platform it would be a branch off of android. No thanks.

  • JarrodSimpson

    It’s a trap. Don’t listen to Verizon.

  • Big_Android_Chick

    1-2 years to get a buggy v1.0 working.
    Another 1-2 more years to work out the bugs for v2.0.

    Why?

    We already have something that has already been very heavily tested, debugged, and perfected. Today. It’s called Android.

    • Skinny_Techie_Sweetie

      You also forgot….

      It would take another 3-4 YEARS to develop 500,000+ apps.

      (We can already have them today… with Android.)

  • Young_Techie_Babe

    > … with their never ending resources …

    Not sure why you think Samsung has “never ending resources”.

    Exactly how many other large-scale, successful phone OSes have they designed recently? Or ever?

    • http://twitter.com/Mackster248 Macky Evangelista

      Well, they do have billions and billions of dollars. O_o That’s a lot of resources to me.

  • Justin

    If Samsung did this, it would be their downfall