Samsung invests $500,000 to join Linux Foundation in struggle to dethrone Apple’s iOS

Even before the official announcement of its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, it was evident that Samsung had big plans for its mobile computing market conquest. As it turns out, the Korea-based company is dead serious about dethroning current market leader Apple and its industry-leading iOS smartphone platform. And the way it plans to do this is by investing in the development of free open source software which is the basis for Google’s Android and its own bet for a new mobile computing platform, Tizen. To that end, Samsung has put in a $500,000 USD investment in the Linux Foundation, the group in charge of the mobile OS Tizen’s development. According to a report on Business Insider, this half-a-million dollar investment automatically gives Samsung Platinum membership and a seat on the board of the Linux Foundation, where it can effectively exercise more control over all software development and make sure that all the right moves are made to eventually knock iOS out of the smartphone arena. The question now probably shouldn’t be how, but when. What Apple plans to do to combat this double threat of Android and Tizen from Samsung and other backers of the Linux Foundation still remains to be seen, though, so perhaps it would be better to avoid passing judgment for now.