"Popular reputation" means "how it's commonly perceived".
I'm not saying Tizen is popular; on the contrary, I was trying to say that it has a reputation as a pointless also-ran Android clone. But past that prejudice, it's actually a competent Linux platform for embedded systems.
Are you aware that since Samsung got their hands on Meego, Tizen already went through three SDKs and userspace re-rewrites?
- First it was just Meego Qt SDK renamed for Tizen
- Samsung then replced it with the SDK from their BADA OS, a ugly Symbian influenced variant, including the same Symbian C++ patterns.
- Now it is based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries and C, with a C++ wrapper library
But this is only for the hardware where developers are allowed to write native apps, as what Samsung is usually pushing for is their Web app approach.
For example for TVs you need a special contract to deploy native apps.