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Here’s the real reason Samsung can’t break away from Android yet

23
Apr
2014

Samsung was rumored more than once to be actively developing a plan to break away from Google’s Android mobile operating system and release devices powered by its own Tizen platform, but that has not happened yet. Considering that Samsung and Google have inked an important partnership earlier this year, it’s highly unlikely that Samsung will ditch Android anytime soon. But there’s one more reason the company may be far from actually making it on its own in the mobile business, a new survey suggests: Samsung’s own software apps rarely become instant hits with customers. Even though Samsung is selling smartphones in the hundreds of millions each year while being the most important Android handset maker and the only consistently profitable one, the

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