Here’s the big question
Samsung (
005930) needs to answer over the next few months: Has it become big enough where it can risk alienating the tech industry’s two most valuable companies?
Bloomberg this week caught up with Doh Hyun Woo, an analyst for Mirae Asset Securities, who makes a strong case that Samsung is taking a big risk by releasing a high-end smartphone based on its own Tizen operating system. Although Samsung is insisting that
Tizen is more of a fallback plan than a full-blown Android alternative, Woo says that may not stop Google from seeing it as a threat to its own ecosystem.
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