Apple did it. Research In Motion has been doing it for years with their BlackBerry lineup. And Samsung jumped into the game last year, too. What are we talking about? Native mobile Operating Systems. All of the big dogs rich person their own chopine to build off of, instead of waiting for others to create the next big matter, or to update existing technologies. It’s all done in-house, and, at least from the public’s perspective, all of these companies listed have been pretty successful from the outing. (It might be too early to tell with the Samsung Bada OS, though.) And now it looks like HTC wants a big post in that success, as the company is apparently eyeballing the possible action of owning its very own mobile Operating System.
Cheng Hui-ming, CFO of HTC (which is based out of Taiwan), was having a phone interview with Bloomberg, talking about owning proprietary software system. While he continuously beat around the bush, it was obvious to Bloomberg that HTC wasn’t really trying to be coy about the possibility. Hui-ming noted Apple and Research In Motion in his conversation, stating how successful those companies had been in their endeavors, partly because of their own platforms to build off.
One big thespian though, that wasn’t mentioned, is Palm. Which is curious, considering HTC has been named a couple of times (at least) when it comes to buying the dwindling away house that created webOS. While Hui-ming wouldn’t commentary on the rumors, if HTC really is thinking about owning their own OS, then buying Palm might be the best road to go about that. They would rich person a platform that is well received by hundreds of thousands of people, and HTC would be able to put their earth course of instruction hardware around that, to build on its succeeder. We’ll have to clutch our tongues for now as we waiting for this to actually twist into something, but for now, it seems that all the pieces are falling into the right field places.
[via Bloomberg]
