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Re:Google is apparently ready to buy HTC by baybal2 on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:50AM (#15198789)
>Unlikely -- Tizen would be dead on arrival, being inferior in all ways to Android, including the app ecosystem.

Would it matter when "an Android phone" means a Samsung phone 9 times out of 10 in Western markets

When an average American comes to Best Buy to buy a phone, he does not deliberate over things as abstract to him as OS of a phone. He sees an Apple phone, a Samsung phone, and a random Chinese phone.

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Re:Google is apparently ready to buy HTC by pilsetnieks on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:06AM (#15199076)
Sony and LG are well-known brands, though, even to the most backwards people.
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Re:Google is apparently ready to buy HTC by pjmlp on Saturday September 09, 2017 @03:17AM (#15205939)
But he/she surely wants to be able to use his/her favourite apps, right?
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