Prove it. It is quite likely that CPUs made by Samsung ended up running WinMo, and phones of Samsung manufacture were sold with it. However, Samsung wasn't in a consortium whose mission was the advancement of WinMo. Microsoft had the sole role in that. Microsoft found phone manufacturers to carry WinMo of course.
Remember how Symbian blew up and took the majority of worldwide smartphone sales? A lot of these same players are in the Symbian Foundation. Of course, these days we see they've mostly abandoned it, with the major exception of Nokia.
Getting desperate are we? Chortle!
Broadcom, Qualcomm, Synaptics and TI have had parts in most cell phones for years. They don't discriminate on what operating system the phone is running. Why don't you prove that there are no TI chips for example in Windows Mobile or mobile Linux smartphones?
In addition, LG, Motorola, HTC and Samsung have been making Windows Mobile smartphones since before Window Mobile, back in the days of Pocket PC.
Vodafone? They have been selling Win Mo smartphones in the UK for years.
And that is just Win Mo. Different versions Mobile Linux has had deals with smartphone chip/chipset makers, mobile carriers etc all over the planet, especially China, long before Android came out.
“It is quite likely that CPUs made by Samsung ended up running WinMo, and phones of Samsung manufacture were sold with it”
I am not bothered about Samsung chips. I am talking about Samsung Win Mo smartphones, which have been on sale for yaers, and are still on sale even as we speak. If all it took for an OS to crush Apple was for Samsung/TI etc to get behind it, how come all these mobile OS’s faltered and Android came from nowhere and clobbered the iPhone but good, in record time?
“Remember how Symbian blew up and took the majority of worldwide smartphone sales?”
Symbian is still the # 1 selling smartphone on the planet, and by far most of Symbian smartphone sales come from Nokia, not from Samsung or any of the other top backers of Symbian.