Read more.The speculation about who, if anyone, will buy the mobile platform is focusing on Samsung.
Read more.The speculation about who, if anyone, will buy the mobile platform is focusing on Samsung.
Doesn't Samsung already have BADA? OTH, if they wanted to buy the WebOS division not showing much initial interest might lead to a lower price.
Of course, webOS is a rather more interesting proposition now than it was a couple of weeks ago, given the hugely inflated install base following the Touchpad fire sale...
Nothing like a quick game of "pin the OS on the mobile OEM", is there!
As to BADA, it's already tagged as the low-end platform in a two-tier strategy. The question (for me, at least) is whether webOS will end up being a consumer platofrm, therefore targetting Android / iOS / arguably WP7, or if a new owner would try to up the productivity / business side, pushing it more into competition with RIM. Let's be honest, none of the existing leading mobile OSs are particularly enterprise / productivity friendly, and a cunning OEM could open up a huge market in business mobile with a couple of good headline apps and some nifty enterprise integration...
Hmm, notice that while Samsung have said no to buying HP-PSG, they haven't said they're not interested in the business by another means - like a joint-venture or partnership. I mean, come-on, is anyone seriously saying that Samsung wouldn't like to suddenly get a leadership position in that market? The HP press statement did say that outright sale of PSG was merely one of the options they were looking at.
Getting back to webOS, what about LG - they make phones too and, as far as I remember, although they've got a couple of good Android devices, they don't have something to go against Bada (Bing?). Maybe webOS would be a good purchase - especially at a Touchpad-like "fire sale" price? Failing that, there was an interesting post here http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/sa...-android-38064 which says:
and it occurs to me that a Korean consortium (LG, Samsung, govt) buying webOS to form the basis of "Kr.OS" (Korea.OS) would be a smart move - most of the donkey work has been done, and all those Pre2/Pre3/Touchpad owners are a pre-made user base.The South Korean government has urged Samsung to move away from its current dependency on Google’s Android operating system for its smartphones and tablets, amid a continuing international patent dispute with Apple over Samsung’s tablet devices.
South Korea called on Samsung and LG Electronics to join a government-backed consortium aimed at developing a home-grown mobile OS. The move comes in the wake of Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility, making Google a direct competitor to Samsung and LG in mobile hardware.
PS, typo time "Samsung CEO and Geosung Choi" - I'm assuming that Mr Choi is CEO in which case the 'and' isn't needed.![]()
I think Samsung are considering this. Considering that Google have now brought into Motorola and all that hardware, Samsung may feel that they can go it alone with their own high end OS...
Wonder where that would leave HTC? With Windows in bed with Nokia, Google buying moto, and potentially Samsung acquiring webOS, that'd leave HTC relying a little too much on the goodwill of its competitors, no?
Am I missing something or does that statement only mention HP-PSG, and doesn't explicitly say "we have no interest in WebOS"? I know that it comes under the remit of HP-PSG, but there is nothing to stop Samsung picking up WebOS as a platform and taking on the associated teams..
Especially since they hired Raymond Wah recently...
That was exactly the line that webOS was being pushed for - at least in the docs I saw, they were talking about "seamless integration with Exchange", centrally set app policies, organization-specific app repositories (so you can only install "approved" apps on your Pre3/Touchpad) etc. I wonder what became of all that.
Oh, and I'm with snootyjim - I can't see Google being too deeply involved with Motorola. I'm in agreement with the commentators who've theorized that access to Moto's patents (to defend Android?) was probably the main reason for the purchase.
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