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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by Steko on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:48PM (#15298102)
They would have just forked android.
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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by JohnTHaller on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @05:02PM (#15298220)
Which would have been like Amazon's fork but crappier. And with a worse app store than Amazon.
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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by ethbro on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @05:29PM (#15298467)
This. I don't think anything Samsung has put out, with due deference to Samsung developers' work, has convinced me that Samsung management is capable of stewarding an Android fork sustainably with Google-equivalent resources. Much less with the fewer resources they'd have to spend on it.
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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by Steko on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:53PM (#15308273)
My point wasn't that Samsung-Android would be Google equivalent but that AOSP was far ahead of Tizen and Windows Phone.
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