HTC's Last Stand – The Final Chapter Of A Smartphone Pioneer

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1. If htc was still around I’d still be an android user

2. I used to love my htc one, and have frequently looked up what phones they have when looking for a replacement. It’s a shame that nothing of theirs made me want it, especially when my budget is a mid range phone from 1-2 years ago.

3. My first ever smartphone was an HTC Dream. Loved that slide-out keypad! I've also had the Desire Z, the HD7, and 7 Surround. Their phones were an amazing experience and I was the OG HTC fanboy.

4. HTC should get into computer business first

5. This is terribly researched and most of it is speculation. The reason HTC failed is mainly their terrible manufacturing quality. Their M7 and M8 had purple tainted pictures after one year. This led people to switch to more realible brands over time. This is a reason Apple is doing so well and Samsung too. People know their smartphones won't have issues usually. It's also the reason Google doesn't catch up with their garbage build quality. People buy their phones once and have constant hardware issues. And then they abandon the brand. HTC was pumping out bad quality phones and ruined their brand.

6. Apple should just be done with it and add a "Peasant" label to non Apple users who call or message them

7. Miss the days when there were so many non Chinese android manufacturers – Samsung, HTC, LG, OnePlus(before acquisition), Sony, Blackberry, Motorola etc, and now it's mainly samsung, with some others barely selling much to make a presence. This competition promoted innovation, and the lack of it is so disappointing.

8. Upon further inspection it looks like one of their most recent devices was focused on nfts, blockchain, and crypto. Ouch… Company just doesn't have much luck

9. Wait. HTC still makes phones?

10. I was rocking with HTC back in the day

11. HTC was a dream back in 2013s or so

12. I missed when we had options in the phone market but society likes mediocracy. thats why we're basically stuck with Scamsung and iBricks

13. I blame their downfall on their horrendous naming scheme. I was super into HTC phones back in the day and even I could barely tell which phone was which

14. I am watching this on an HTC phone and I generally love their products for their stability. We dropped (unintentionally) HTC phones from the second floor without damage.

15. If anyone can see the smartphone trend, every brand that inovate early bound to fail. Nokia always innovating on phone, same as HTC and Sony. The most innovating brand right now is Huawei. And all of this brand nearly collapsing.

16. Your videos were better before you started "showing yourself talking" 20 times in a 10 minute video. It's distracting and breaks up the continuity and video flow..
    We get it, you like seeing yourself, but you have nothing to do with the subject matter. A "head shot" once or twice per video is enough to get known

17. htc software experience was one of the best for it's time.

18. My HTC One M8 is the only cell phone that I have ever had that is actually survived after I gotten got an upgrade. Every other phone has broken and I needed to get a new one. Nothing that I've done. Just the pixel microphone stopped working then the pixel 3 battery started swelling but the HTC One M8 just got old and slow. Still solid

19. HTC put a speaker in the front… Best sounds I ever got out of a phone

20. What made my family and friends turn away fro HTC was that the phones were not reliable.
    Signal was often bad on HTC phones, storage would sometimes lose files, and the camera software was good but chugged super hard when taking pics. I had a couple friends whose HTC phone died on them after what I assume was a battery short or something frying the insides. Never saw that with Motorolas, Samsungs, etc…
    Shame, that… I wanted HTC to do better. They had some cool tech and cool ideas, but they just got shoved out by other companies doing their version of the ideas better, as the video says.

21. How can you make a video on HTC without mentioning HTC vive? Their vrs are amazing

22. In 2005 I had an htc tmobile mda. What a wonderful phone. I fell in love with htc. Then when the evo 4g came, I went from being in love, to just never letting go of my htc…..but as time went on, they stagnated to me. They just got a little more meh with every release. The worst was the stupid ultra pixel nonsense. Then the Toshiba camera, the…..what happened after that?

23. Defiantly my favorite phone brand… phones were so elegant and class leading

24. I tried to buy HTC but they do not have an online store. no info about where to buy

25. Everyone had an HTC. Their early phones were cool.

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