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[...] Samsung Bada unveiled as new iPhone, Android platform rival Instead, Samsung’s considerable resources will be devoted toward its own new platform, creating more competition and differentiation in options among smartphone platforms and reducing the energy being channeled toward licensed operating systems, with Windows Mobile being the biggest loser (with the loss of around 1.2 million of the 3.6 million Windows Mobile phones that shipped in Q3 2009), Symbian losing a significant licensee entirely, and Android facing a rival new marketplace for mobile software. [...]

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By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:46:02 +0000

Hum. I just hope the build quality on the Smart Phones is better than their build quality on the Dumb Phones. Quite frankly their Dumb Phones are junk.

By: Berend Schotanus

Berend Schotanus — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:44:06 +0000

Interesting new development! Assessing in how far this is “good” or “bad” for Android depends on the goals that Google had while developing Android. When the goal was to earn money with software in an Android Market this certainly is bad news.
However, my personal feeling is that Android primarily was meant to break open the mobile internet market and prevent one party, be it Apple or Microsoft, from domination. Seen from this perspective Android seems quite successful. It helped the lesser Gods in mobile industry to take the step from phones to smartphones while remaining independent from Big Microsoft. It helped them to start thinking on their own, to discover that user experience and user interface are really connected to their brand while there is a wealth of open source foundation (like Linux, WebKit, …) they can build upon. Whenever I have been enthusiastic about Android this is the kind of development I’ve been hoping for.

By: MipWrangler

MipWrangler — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:01:37 +0000

@Lmasanti

iPhone OS and Mac OS X aren’t really the same OS, at least not much more than could be said of some of the Linux-based mobile OSs and a Linux desktop distro. They may share the same kernel and services layer code, but they are optimized differently, have separate builds, not to mention different UIs (though I will grant you that the UIs are at least based on the same APIs). Where I agree with you is that Apple has a consistent user experience across their two platforms. I don’t think any self respecting “Linux guy” (including myself) could claim Linux provides anything close to a consistent UI experience. Unless of course you want to be clever and say it’s consistently inconsistent! ;)

By: lmasanti

lmasanti — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:38:00 +0000

The funny thing –at least for me– is that “they don’t get it!”

The full idea behind iPhone’s OS X is not –in my personal opinion– that it is “owned” by Apple… in the sense of Samsung’s Bada or Nokia’s Symbian/Maemo. I’m just taking into account the companies that develop hard and soft.

The real strength of iPhone’s OS X is that it is the same as the OS X in Apple’s desktop computers and Apple’s hand held computers and Apple’s servers.

In other words, Apple has just ONE operating system for all its products!

Maybe, some day, they will be awakened!

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:09:34 +0000

Is “Bada” really any worse than “Wince”? (WinCE)

Bada Bing, Bada Boom

By: lowededwookie

lowededwookie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:20:36 +0000

Why does that name sound like a really poor product?

Bada sounds like “Bad eh?”.

I’m not really holding out much hope for this product.