Samsung has made no secret of the fact that it wants to expand Tizen to a wide variety of devices. Expanding the reach of Tizen to new devices has been a central theme of the Tizen Developer Conference 2017, where the company unveiled some new hardware products and announced new partnerships to improve the Tizen platform.
Samsung is particularly focusing on expanding Tizen in the Internet of Things market. It has good reason to do that. The IoT market is growing steadily and yet there's no dominant player. Apple and Google are competing in this space but they're not competing the way that they do in the mobile market.
As the only potential challenger left to take on iOS and Android, Tizen certainly has an important part to play in the IoT ecosystem. Samsung is making sure that it's here to stay. Tizen will now be increasingly used to power connected devices while Samsung has also said that it's going to use the OS in almost all of its smart home appliances by 2020.
The company also plans to expand Tizen's reach in the smartphone market. It revealed during the keynote yesterday that Tizen smartphones will eventually be released in most markets across the globe.
