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Samsung coasts on Google's creativity in pushing Android. If they had to rely on Tizen or Meego (or god forbid Symbian), they'd be dead in the water... and that's not considering Google's very popular 1st-party Android apps (ie, GMail, Maps, etc).

Without Google, Samsung has no trump cars in the hand. They know it, which is why they put any money at all in to other OSs.

What is amazing is that Google is letting them dominate the Android market so completely. If Google hopes that a strong Samsung will ward off a strong Apple, they better watch their own back.