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Tie, Tee Or Tiz? Operating Systems Also-Rans Seek To Outsmart Google, Apple

Ron Burgundy

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Picture illustration of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S4 and Apple's iPhone 5 taken in SeoulYou may have heard of the operating system Tizen (you may even know how to pronounce it: tie-zen, not tee-zen or tiz-zen). But the chances of it running your smartphone are slim, about the same as having had one of its predecessors or rivals: Maemo, Moblin, MeeGo, Bada, Ubuntu, Sailfish or Firefox. Every Mobile World Congress in the past four years has featured an announcement about one of these operating systems (OS). This year is no different, as handset makers, carriers and chipmakers try to break the stranglehold that Google Inc and Apple Inc have on the software that runs the world's mobile phones.




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