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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by tooltalk on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:12PM (#15297199)
Not sure if that's the case. Samsung was always developing Android and Windows based mobile devices -- though Android was selling in much larger quantity.

Both Moto and HTC were/are way past their prime and I personally think Google should just let it die and pick up distressed assets at bargain price when it goes belly up.

It'd be also interesting if Samsung would drop Android altogether and starts using MS mobile OS.

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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by endemic on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:44PM (#15297508)
Samsung also has their own OS, Tizen, which seems like a hedge against Google. I'd be curious to know what it would take for them to pull the trigger and make it the default OS in the Galaxy line.
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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by usrusr on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:24PM (#15297312)
> just let it die and pick up distressed assets at bargain price when it goes belly up.

Doing that would mean that all the experience that could have been part of the deal will already be gone.

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