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 Originally Posted by jetz
... And Samsung has already invested too much into bada/tizen to pull out for webos, ...
Exactly.
Of course, if you are a geek, you can afford to implement for platform A today and platform B tomorrow, but this is NOT how it works in a company. There you have to generate profit. While investing resources into many platforms might generate revenue, the investments tend to eat up all the profit.
Therefore, companies concentrate on one platform, thus keeping investments low, generating more profit out of the revenue.
Bundling your energy instead of fragmenting it is the way to go.
As with Samsung, they seem to concentrate most of their smartphone-market resources into the Android platform devices, keeping Tizen as a failsafe. A failsafe is good, considering patent issues (Google vs. Apple) as well as Google partially owning a hardware platform (Motorola) themselves and other things aside.
And Tizen is a good failsafe as there is Intel and the linux foundation standing behind it.
So I ask again: what would Samsung need openWebOS for? No company has money to give away so easily.
As sad as it is for us WebOS fans, I can't see any motivation for Samsung to go for openWebOS.
I would rather think that HTC is a candidate, seeing that they have lost a lot at their Android base and might wanna have a failsafe like Samsung. So if they don't opt to join the Tizen train, they might think of openWebOS as an alternative...
But that is me speculating here. Nothing else.
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