Thursday, October 9, 2014

HTC is lost, and this blind camera isn't helping


"The smartphone is just the overture of HTC’s grand opera."


Phones are now cheaply made commodities, and the company that makes them the sole focus of its business doesn’t survive long in the modern world. Motorola, Nokia, and Palm were all sold off to richer conglomerates, Sony Ericsson was reabsorbed into Sony, and BlackBerry is just hanging on by the resilient thread of its enterprise services. Until yesterday, HTC was the last holdout as an independent smartphone maker, but now it too is embracing the winds of inevitable change.


Having tried and failed to build profitably unique features into its phones, HTC is now moving beyond them with new software and cameras that are compatible with the iPhone as well as Android. The goal with...


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