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The first Tizen smartphone is “a bad Android clone”

Ars Technica reviews the Samsung Z1, the very first Tizen smartphone. The conclusions are… Well, it’s a piece of crap.

Similar to when Samsung started making modern smartphones, its first swing at building an OS boils down to a lesser copy of the market leader. Tizen is just a less mature version of Android with no apps and no major ecosystem player supporting it. The OS feels like it’s straight out of that Dilbert comic where the Pointy-Haired Boss suggests “If we work day and night, we can match our competitors’ features within twelve months.” Tizen seems to have done a good job copying an OS from several years ago, but it never evolved while its competitors did. For now, the conclusion of any Tizen-based smartphone review will always say “this would have been a better product if it ran Android.”

Tizen: a bland, outdated, pointless operating system nobody is asking for except Apple bloggers.

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