Samsung courted "app" makers at its first developers conference, stepping out of Google's shadow when it comes to software powering mobile devices. About 1,300 people attending the event, which continues through Tuesday at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, delved into techniques for making applications that work across an array of Samsung devices.
"There are close to half a billion connected devices in the world today, yet a very limited portion are actually connected to each other," said Samsung media solution center president Won-Pyo Hong.
"Samsung is creating one of the largest connected platforms spanning a broad range of devices that people love and use every day, including smartphones, tablets, TVs and much more." During a keynote presentation Monday in a packed ballroom, Samsung executives showed off new software development kits but there was little mention of Android, the Google-made operating system on which the South Korean company's smartphone empire stands.