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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (109081)	2/13/2011 4:43:48 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213183

Yes. One wonders how desperate you have to be to abandon any thought of making thier own OS... and use an OS controlled by a third party who has very little interest in it other than market share achieved by giving it away. I just look at Samsung annual revenue of $172.5 billion in 2009 with Total assets of 294.5 billion in 2009... hardware and technology experience up the ying yang and huge buying power... and they can't develop their own OS? So they us an OS that is based on a free OS they could have used anyway? How lazy is that? Sheech. A dinky company like Palm (net income of 732 million 2009) developed a pretty decent OS. They are 1/100th as large as Samsung. That just goes to show how important an OS is and how sharp you have to be to make one. HP is smart. They now have their very own OS. How many tech companies can say that? Pretty much all the Android makers are slackers living in the past if you ask me, with a few exceptions. Any of them could have been smart and tried to snap up Palm but none of them have any kind of moxie at all, nor does Nokia which took the easy "safe" road to oblivion.