Talk:Samsung Kies

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Meaning of Kies

What does Kies mean? Is this some Korean word?
There is a German word "Kies" meaning "gravel" in English. That is quite certainly not the meaning here though. 20.133.40.85 (talk) 14:06, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Kies" was originally an acronym, as "K.I.E.S." (Key Intuitive Easy System). This acronym was discontinued after KIES version 2.0. I added this information to the wiki page, but I was unable to find an actual source for this on the Internet. My source, personally, is my Samsung technical training. If anyone can find a reliable source for this information on the Internet, I'd appreciate if you could put that source in the article. I'll keep looking though. Thank you very much. - Zecred (talk) 17:42, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

mention of the quality

suspicious that there is no mention on this page of how popular kies was with users:

http://download.cnet.com/Kies/3000-18511_4-75677096.html#rateit

02:36, 1 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.8.82.234 (talk)

The "popularity" of this application is not necessarily measurable, for several reasons. First, "popularity" stands as a moderately biased viewpoint, and is not entirely factual without very definitive statistics. Thus why it is not mentioned in the article. Also, since Kies is really the only "official" way to back up your data (and is also the only way that most non-power users are aware of), then the program's popularity is almost irrelevant. - Zecred (talk) 16:09, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]