Continuing its push into the IoT, but more importantly away from its diminishing smartphone business, Samsung unveiled its Artik development platform at IoT World in San Francisco. The new open platform includes three hardware modules as well as all the necessary code to develop apps to run on them – all powered by Samsung’s own Exynos chips. For Samsung, this is a move away from its declining smartphone and tablet business, which is quickly being eroded by increased competition from Chinese vendors at both ends of the pricing scale. Additionally, the Artik venture will enable Samsung to meet its goal of connecting every one of its products to the internet by 2020 – meaning that its consumer and industrial appliances…