[pr337h4m]

What do the OEMs have to say about this? A lot of them, including Samsung, have their own app stores. Surely they'd not be willing to cede control?

[realusername]

OEM will of course retain more rights than device owner as it's always the case on android

[Kwpolska]

Samsung's store contains virtually no original third-party software, anything that's worth installing and is not from Samsung is available on the Play Store.

[b112]

You know, you have to wonder what they did wrong.

Sure the Play store was dominant when they started their own store. Yet companies tend to have excellent success if they control the OS on the device.

They could have offered no commission for 5 years, or some such.

Does anyone reading this know if the contract they had to sign with Google, to have the Play store pre-installed, reduced their ability to compete?

I mean look at the whole Epic thing. They could have offered them commission free use of the store, and used that to draw users in.

It's like they weren't trying.

[wilsonnb3]

They probably weren’t. Samsung does just enough work so that they could feasibly create their own fork of Android in the event of Google trying to fuck them.

The Galaxy store is more of an insurance policy than a real product they expect people to use.

[N19PEDL2]

> Samsung does just enough work so that they could feasibly create their own fork of Android in the event of Google trying to fuck them.

This is the right time.

[tencentshill]

Have you used a Tizen device lately? It's awful for UX, UI, and backend functionality with Smartthings.