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So, Verizon needs to hire some coders and get cracking? It took Apple and Google years to produce a good modern phone OS. Palm took a shot at their own os, and as near as i can tell, they're gone now.

Phone manufacturers made their choice a decade ago. They picked closed, complex, developer hostile platforms. Now, it seems, that was a mistake. Phone manufacturers get to fund Apple, Google, or Microsoft's, move into their markets.

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