Leave WebOS to wither in the corner, Samsung won’t save it

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Samsung are going to buy WebOS? Oh come on, pull the other one.

The name of the game in the smartphone space is one of perception. It’s not enough to be the best operating system when geeks do a double blind test of the underlying code and SDK capabilities, the market needs to emotionally belive that you are the best (which, imo, is one of the reasons Symbian is where it is now).

So remind me why a failed operating system, with minimal developer support and not one hardware success that could even be counted as a triple, let alone a home run, would be suitable for Samsung to swoop in, retrain their engineers, and retool their production line? Far better to have a new and fresh in-house OS which they can control 100%.

Which is what they’re doing with Bada.