Samsung offers app developers an opportunity to win $10,000

NEW DELHI: Globally-acclaimed electronics manufacturer Samsung has launched its Tizen Mobile App Incentive Program, the company’s first initiative to support Tizen’s global developer community and to expand its mobile app ecosystem. Developers are invited to submit Tizen mobile apps for an opportunity to win $10,000 or more. This announcement was made at the NASSCOM Game Developers Conference, India’s largest confluence of game developers.

“As a committed leader of the Tizen platform, we strive to further benefit, expand upon and evolve the Tizen ecosystem,” said Woncheol Chai, VP of Global Product Management, Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics. "We’re excited to launch this new incentive program to help develop and bring the best of mobile apps to the Tizen community as well as provide customers with a better mobile experience.”

The new program will run from February through October 2017, and developers who create mobile apps for Tizen, such as gaming, social and lifestyle apps, are eligible to apply. Every month, each of the top 100 apps downloaded from the Tizen store and pre-registered to participate in the Tizen Mobile App Incentive Program will win $10,000. Apps already available in the Tizen store, as well as new apps, can be entered to win. Developers need to register their apps for participation by visiting incentive.tizenstore.com. Individuals can begin applying to participate in January 2017. The winners will be notified on the 10^th of each month starting from March 10, 2017 and will end on November 10, 2017.