Another alternative to Android: Samsung Bada and Tizen will be combined with a common application runtime environment.

Recently on Habré it was mentioned that the project of creating a mobile operating system with open source Tizen reached the stage of alpha version and the developer tools for it were published. In the comments, many skeptically responded to the prospects of this system, and the user Vass even found a few bugs when trying to run Tizen-application in the emulator.

Today, Samsung’s senior vice president Tae-Jin Kang (Tae-Jin Kang) during an interview at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, announced that Samsung’s Bada, which is homebrewed in the depths of Samsung, Currently, about 2% of the market will be merged with Tizen as part of the creation of a new project with a common SDK and API.

The essence of the merger is that two separate mobile platforms will have some kind of common infrastructure that allows you to run already existing Bada applications on Tizen. Kang also did not outline the time frame of the project, emphasizing only that the work is already underway.

A curious circumstance is the following: Tizen is the successor of two other mobile platforms - MeeGo and LiMo. And the first of the systems - MeeGo - is itself a symbiosis of earlier Maemo (made by Nokia) and Moblin (from Intel). The development is carried out with the support of the Linux and Limo Foundation funds, and the result of the work was intended to compete with another open and already mega-popular Android system. Korean Samsung has an entire zoo of mobile platforms in its arsenal - first of all, Android also works on its top devices; In addition, there are devices on the “native” for Samsung Bada and on Microsoft Phone 7 manufactured by Microsoft.
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