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 Originally Posted by PalmPixi_User23
Now that begs the questions, today Google announced a new partnership with LG to make their smartphones that runs on Android 4.2 operating system. I'm wandering if this new business with Google/LG could alter their thinking of getting involve with WebOS at all, and also if these new phones from Android manufactured by LG comes to be successful....could it force LG to look elsewhere and continue to deepen their ties with Google ? 
If they do already make some Android phones, with or without Google's nexus, they are still cookie-cutter android phones with only incremental improvements. There's one Apple with its iPhone, but if there's 5 or so Android phone manufacturers, you kind of have a lottery, there is less chance of an "iconic" device... I hope you see what i mean. It becomes a commodity, like a sandwich. Manufacturers become interchangeable.
So i think the deal with Google is for money only, it's Google's "Google Phone" and not so much of an LG flagship device.
I think LG will still keep WebOS "in the cards" so to speak. What Google gives, Google takes away. There's no guarantees in terms of who will build the next Nexus, and LG will probably want to be independent enough to exist on its own.
Now, WebOS is a gamble in itself. It doesn't have the commodity status of Android, but regardless of its Wow factor, lacks many of the apps and kind of "doesn't exist"... people won't know enough to go and by a phone because of WebOS... unless they've owned one before.
Now, a user doesn't need 10,000 apps... 50 apps is enough for the average person, but the psychological factor kind of overshadows that. I think if we'll have enough "million dollar" quality apps to demo, WebOS can be made attractive enough, like the iPhone, like Microsoft Surface... Android is "sliced bread", WebOS is eye-catching... it just doesn't have the momentum in the marketplace.
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