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From a developer perspective, I'm interested in advance of conventional Linux on mobile (not Android, but X/Wayland based). What prevents it at present is severe lack of devices (or you can say drivers/open kernels). Such cases as N9 and upcoming Vivaldi/C71 are rare exceptions so far. Whatever flavor the OS will be wrapped in (Tizen, Mer etc.), if devices will be open allowing easy swapping of the mobile distros and drivers would be possible to update - it's already great for developers. That's why I'm not so excited about Tizen updates, since nothing was said about devices coming. However Vivaldi progress are really good news.
Edited 2012-05-01 22:14 UTC
RE[6]: Comment by shmerl
by cyrilleberger on Wed 2nd May 2012 07:54
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N9 is/was great, the problem is not Meego, the problem is Nokia. They just "give up".
From a developer point of view, your statement don't make sense to me. I need to see what kind of development tools/SDK out there to figure out how serious I should take on a platform.
For a project that still in its infancy, a release of version 1 of SDK is a good sign that this project is getting serious. At least, they (as the people in Tizen) are serious about it.
I don't think Tizen is expecting a consumer end device soon, but for developers, I suspect some are trying it on existing Android (Linux) devices. If you expecting new devices that run mainly on Tizen, you would have to wait. This is expected from project that just in its current stage.