KDE vs Android and iOS

[Mikeb85]

I'm a little torn on Tizen. On the one hand, Intel, Samsung and Linux Foundation are all extremely large, and between them has a lot of money to invest into it.

But, on the other hand, that is also it's weakness. Meego, Maemo, Symbian and WebOS were all promising phone OS competitors. And they all basically disappeared because the organisation funding them decided it wasn't a worthwile investment anymore.

I would have bought a Meego phone had Nokia not killed the platform by selling out to Microsoft. It looked very promising.

I think Tizen has a chance. Samsung is one of the largest tech manufacturers in the world, has shown alot of determination, and Intel is desperate to gain some market share in the mobile chip market.

For the next year though we have Android.

[HappinessNow]

...just like HP scared people off from using WebOS....

ironically we may not have seen the last of WebOS as it is speculated that Amazon may buy WebOS and revive it.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/29/amazon-buy-palm/