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Samsung is not a M&A company. That really hurts the chances of this happening even if there are forces within Samsung and HP pushing for it. The top management
by ansy 15y ago
Samsung is not a M&A company. That really hurts the chances of this happening even if there are forces within Samsung and HP pushing for it. The top management is skeptical of successful mergers, and at a tightly controlled company such as Samsung that makes a big difference.
I still contend the best buyer of webOS would be Google. The patents are gold, the price is probably right, it eliminates the possibility of a partner turning into a competitor, and the talent would integrate easily. Everyone's already in the valley. Just shut down webOS for good, put the developers on Android or ChromeOS, and tell consumers to look forward to great webOS features making it into future Android and ChromeOS releases.
- darklajid 15y agoWhat a sad idea. That's exactly what I _don't_ hope for. - No, Google shouldn't get WebOS. I lose confidence in Google every day.. - No, please don't rip WebOS (the IP) apart because of patents - ChromeOS is more of a joke than WebOS ever was and is really the project that should die to bring more resources to Chrome or Android. What a waste.. You're making sense, maybe, from a business point of view. But for me this is just crazy and falls into the 'let us buy out a start-up, bury anything they did so far and hope that the people stay with us and work on other things we consider cool' category. Which works, sometimes. Still - I hate those 'solutions'.