The same thing happened to iPod in music players. But I for one..... don't believe that great marketing actually makes a product better! ...or having a leader that comes off as some overly charismatic religious fanatic, makes those products better either. Especially since Steven Jobs is well known for his caustic slice and dice approach (full of lies and exaggerations) to anti-competitive marketing their product delivery! ....along with covering up the truth or at least hiding it (on Wiki at least).
The people that actually use HTC products know that any problems from using then aren't the fault of the hardware designers are makers. But had to do with 3rd party software or the Windows OS they didn't make themselves. That afterall, designed and built the first Touch Screen Smartphone (Pocket PC combo phone)!
Truth: Android OS was in development before iPhone was a twinkling in Apple's eye. Two years before Google bought Android in August of 2005, Andy Rubin was presenting his startup concepts in 2003 for a new OS and Apple's Steve Jobs took notes and ran with them later that year. But you must have hardware first, before you design or simply port a mobile version of OS-X in the first place designed for a touch screen phone. That wasn't accomplished until after the concept of combining an iPod with a phone was in the works just 30 months (after which Steve sometime in 2004 sought Touch Screen research designers) prior to the iPhone being announced in January 2007!
Does anyone actually believe Apple had any idea of getting in the phone business before HTC launched the First TRUE TOUCH SCREEN SMARTPHONE in 2002 (after Smartphone was coined by Ericsson in late 90's)? But with Windows CE, it was erroneously labeled as a Pocket PC w/Touch Screen Interface. Even though, it could multi-task and one of it's primary functions was making Phone Calls. Therefore it was not merely a Pocket PC! (by the way if you think HTC is a push over..... you are wrong! ....or is it Wong? That under Cher Mi Wong HTC was established in the '97 as her 2nd success along with Via Chip designs and manufacture. Her roots are in the formidable shadows of Formosa Plastics founder, the Island's most revered late tycoon, Wang Yung-ching..... her father!
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BTW... Taiwan as a nation, is made of over 20 Million people. The majority of whom are related to their Han Dynasty ancestors in China that fled the mainland after the Communist take over. The Hans were once one of the most powerful Dynasties in the World! ....wake 'em all up.... and you have many unforeseen problems, as Apple will no doubt find out!
...the Hans Worldwide live without borders and boundaries in the business world!Best to Consider, that most of those Top Ten Phones were made by HTC!!!
