On Wednesday, a report from Forbes reported that Samsung was throwing in the towel on the Knox platform. To say this had many confused would be an understatement.
At Rapid, we didn’t cover it as the “article” seemed void of all merit and completely at odds with everything we were aware of.
The Forbes article was by Forbes contributor Bob Egan, who is the executive adviser and founder of the Sepharim Group.
“After 18 months of going it alone and spending untold sums of money on development and marketing, Samsung is throwing in the towel on Knox. Google is stepping up to take the lead on Android security,” Egan wrote.
The Forbes article went to print just over a month after Samsung announced that the Department of Defense had added five of their products (each using the Knox platform) to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s approved device list.
The claim also led many to question the announcements involving Knox made during Google’s I/O conference, where Knox was touted as a major aspect to Android L.
In response to the Forbes article, Samsung said they have no plans to stop development on the platform, adding that Google’s usage of Knox technology for Android L, was their way of contributing something to benefit the Android community.
“Samsung is committed to the long term evolution of mobile security and the ongoing development of Samsung KNOX. While Samsung is contributing a part of KNOX technology for the benefit of the entire Android community and enterprise customers, Samsung KNOX remains the most secure Android platform from the hardware to the application level.
Samsung will continue to work with our partners to enable KNOX for all of our valued customers. Our list of enterprise and government clients continues to grow rapidly, and is a testament to our commitment to providing highly-desirable, secure mobile devices across all industries.”
