Analysis: How Android TV, webOS, Firefox OS and Tizen powered Smart TV into a new age

Analysis: How Android TV, webOS, Firefox OS and Tizen powered Smart TV into a new age

By James Rivington

Analysis: How Android TV, webOS, Firefox OS and Tizen powered Smart TV into a new age

The world of Smart TV has been an absolute shambles for years. Interfaces are shonky and features are clunky.

The maturation of Smart TV has been appallingly slow, with all the big names pulling in different directions and causing themselves all manner of problems.

The problem is that with every big brand developing their own systems and with no open standards, diversity and non conformity has led to overwhelmingly poor user experiences.

It’s the exact opposite situation to the way the industry adoption of Android as a mobile OS has supercharged the smartphone industry and enabled it to grow exponentially.

You only need to look at how all the big TV brands have been radically changing their Smart TV platforms every year to see how they’ve been really struggling to get it right.

Android TV

LG leads the charge with webOS 2.0

LG has been the front runner in Smart TV for two or three years and took a big lead in the Smart TV wars when it bought webOS and started shipping the formerly mobile OS on its TVs at the start of 2014.

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Source: techradar.com – Gaming

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