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Comment by robin_reala | Hacker News Reader

Samsung are the second biggest contributor to Servo. Something about WebKit being an Apple project possibly?

    >Something about WebKit being an Apple project possibly?

The little conspiracy trolls are bouncing around in my skull, I rarely let them out, but they currently have me wondering if Samsung is planning for the possibility of an Amazon-esque Android fork in the future sans Chrome?

I think quite a few large companies would love to see an Android fork without Google. Unfortunately ditching the Play Store is not as easy as it sounds.

Samsung has a counterpart for pretty much every notable app Google has to offer on Android, investing in Servo may be a part of this.

If that's the case then we might see a production release sooner than later. Not from Mozilla, but something Samsung releases - perhaps an embedded browser component in some app.

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