Tizen Store

2022: Store Closure

In early January 2022, Samsung closed the Tizen app store for both newly minted and existing users. The company closed the registration and made the store available only to existing users, and they could only receive previously downloaded applications, and both categories of users could not download and update applications.

After December 31, 2021, the Tizen application store was finally closed, and users of Samsung Z series smartphones were invited to switch to Android or iOS operating systems in all countries. Tizen is positioned as a flexible operating system (OS) for any devices, as well as the lack of applications have clocked HTML 5 support and open source.

Samsung closes Tizen mobile app store

The history of Tizen OS began in 2007, when Intel it launched the development of Mobile operating system Linux , and already in 2009 it was merged with, Nokia Maemo which turned into. In MeeGo 2011, Nokia abandoned the project, and its successor was Tizen OS, the company was also supported by Intel and. Bada OS Linux Foundation Samsung subsequently also became part of Tizen OS.

Despite the complete transition to Android for their phones and Wear OS for their smartwatches, the last smart watches with this OS were the Galaxy Watch 3, released in 2020. The system continues to live only on televisions, but under the Eden shell. Samsung introduced its smart TVs, which still run Tizen OS and offers a rather multifunctional collection of all the popular streaming audio and video services for smart TVs. Samsung Health, SmartThings, Samsung TV Plus and various other gaming functions are also integrated into Tizen OS. At the same time, it should be recognized that Tizen OS is one of the richest functions and is potentially able to attract even famous manufacturers that do not have their own OS.^[1]

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