Samsung Really, Really Wants Developers To Build Tizen Apps (theinquirer.net)

Posted by msmash on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:40AM from the do-it-already dept.

Samsung wants developers to build apps for its homegrown Tizen mobile operating system, and it is offering cash prizes to do so. From a report on The Inquirer:The firm has launched the Tizen Mobile App Incentive Programme, which offers devs whose apps feature in the top 100 most downloaded rankings (can't be that hard, surely) a $10,000 reward. The firm will pay up to $1m a month from February to September 2017, Samsung said, making a total of $9m up for grabs. Developers will be able to sign up for the Tizen incentive programme from January 2017, and the firm explained that applications must be developed using the Tizen SDK and aimed at the Tizen-powered Samsung Z1, Z2 and Z3.

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Re:Please let Tizen succeed by tlhIngan · 2016-11-14 07:33 · Score: 4, Interesting

Tizen offers precisely nothing that Android doesn't already have, apart from lock-in to Samsung's eco system, with it's also-ran alternatives to things Google/Android already does far better (S-Voice is garbage, for instance).
Tizen is also a nightmare to program for.
Tizen is just an OS, but the underlying foundation is E! (Enlightenment, if you're not up to date on your old fancy X window managers), or more correctly, the E Foundation Libraries (similar to ones like QT and GNOME).
And if you've never done E!, well, someone more eloquent has stated the numerous issues with it.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t...