Why Samsung switching smartwatches from Android to Tizen maybe isn't that big a deal

Things have changed behind the familiar faces, but does that really matter?

Samsung has announced their new wearables this evening, and one of the bullet points stands out a bit more than the others. Both the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo are running Tizen — an open-source operating system developed in part by Samsung.

This brings up a lot of contreversy from Android faithful — the original Galaxy Gear ran a slightly modified version of Android — as well as a lot of questions about what Tizen is, and why Samsung decided to go with it. We're not going to jump too deep into the contreversy, but we can try to talk about some of the questions and give a few answers.

The short version is that the sky is not falling, and Tizen on Samsung's new smartwatches can be a very good thing. The longer version is after the break.

source: androidcentral