That sounds like a good idea until the collaboration is acrimoniously torn apart in a legal battle over patents, trademarks and revenue sharing.

Then, Apple file a brief that proves conclusively that it was their idea anyway and demands $200 for every new installation of Bada. Microsoft, sensing the winds of change, retreat into enterprise-only mobile space.

Bereft of their large software partner and unwilling to pay licence fees to Apple, Samsung sell off their low-tech phone business to Facebook, who buy it for $1bn for no other reason than the price was decided by an engineer and an intern over lunch. They then shutter the OS, replacing it by FB OS that was in development for 6 weeks on phones across the third world.

The Techcrunch headline? Bada: BOOM!

This comment is both relevant and a great pun. You win the day!

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