In opening up its smart TV operating system to third-party licensing, LG Electronics has dealt a major blow to Comcast’s own X1 licensing ambitions, as well as throwing down the gauntlet to Android, Roku and Amazon in the smart TV scene. Releasing the webOS smart TV platform outside of the LG smart TV line-up will serve as a springboard for UX software developers specializing in LG’s webOS framework, those such as Accedo, 3SS, Norigin Media, and none more so than You.i TV which was recently snapped up by AT&T’s WarnerMedia. Initially, LG plans to license webOS to niche smart TV manufacturers such as Ayonz (via its Blaupunkt, EKO, and Seiki brands), RCA, and Konka, before building up to bigger and…