Lol at all the HTC hate out there because a specific phone wasn't orange zebra striped with 10 sd card slots or God forbid it has sense. I don't disagree that HTC has has its problem & made some poor design decisions, but they also have has some stellar products along the way. The biggest problem has been advertising & market timing. Verizon controls a big part of the market, so late releases & poorly advertised releases have crippled HTC over the last 2 years. That's probably both HTC's and Verizon's fault.
Just look at when the Razr came out 2 years ago. Big red blasted 5x the ads for that over the Rezound & Nexus. Other than battery life, it had the least specs of the three phones but had the most sales. Gee, I wonder why.
There are probably more android sheep than I-sheep nowadays, and unfortunately they are the ones that buy based on tv ads rather than doing actual research.
Here is where you are wrong, it was not marketing, but crappy phones, that is the reason people went elsewhere, including myself, it's not like they where a nobody and just came out of nowhere, they were the top android handset maker, till they decided to go the iPhone route, hence no micro SD card and no removable battery, plus their software updates where hardly existent, problem was and is they are not Apple, so spare me with the advertising nonsense. If they kept pace with what the consumer wanted they would not be in the shape they are in now. Here is something for you to understand, if the DROID DNA had a removable battery and micro SD card expansion I would have bought that handset in a heartbeat, and so would thousands of others, the biggest complaint on that phone was lack of micro SD card and small non removable battery, everything else from processor to screen where and are still great. So since HTC decided to piss on its loyal customers, the customers decided to piss back, and spend their hard earned money elsewhere. I could care less what name the handset has on it, if the manufacturer of said device gives me what I want, I will gladly reward him with my hard earned cash. That manufacturer happened to be Samsung "and trust me I was never a Samsung fan" took me some time to go that route, waited for HTC to get their head out of their rear end, but that never happened. The reason Samsung is where they are now is because manufacturers like HTC dropped the ball, and Samsung jumped on the opportunity handed to them by HTC and others, just like their CEO said, we manufacture what the consumer wants, they at least listen and people are glad to hand them over their hard earned money, I guess hundreds of millions of phones sold later is a testament that you will only succeed as long as your product satisfies the people with the money. If HTC decided to make the One just with those two options I mentioned that phone would have been a record breaker, but why should I pay the same $ for a device that is lacking features a comparable device like the S4 has, so what that the ONE has a metal body, not crazy about metal phones with big glass screens attached to them, one drop and there goes your nice shinny metal device, plus the S4 is lighter and more damage resistant, but for me it will be in a case regardless, and most people will do the same thing, 80% of people I see have a case on their phone, including all those iPhone sheep. I buy a phone for its features and functionality, that is what matters at the end of the day, not how it looks, looks don't last very long when the shortcomings sooner or later reveal themselves, it's like dating a hot girl, but you know she is a *****, but since she is hot you say what the hell, till that hottnes starts to whayne with each passing day as she makes your life a living hell, OK not the best of analogies but you get what I an saying.
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