Comments on: HTC Backs Out of U.S. Tablet Market, Says It Was a “Learning Experience”

By: Stewart Young

Stewart Young — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:00 +0000

I agree I love the HTC products, I have a Thunderbolt and a HTC Flyer, Now I will have think about Samsung or Motorola = Google products. well Keep the HTC product could become museum items!!!

By: Stewart Young

Stewart Young — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Let’s hope so!!

By: Tyler Cameron

Tyler Cameron — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:45:00 +0000

Yeah. God only knows what the hell made them think “Hey. I know everyone else prices their tablets the same as the iPad and they’re not selling at all. Let’s make ours even MORE expensive!”

By: GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™ — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:31:00 +0000

Tablets need USB. {{-_-}}

By: angermeans

angermeans — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:06:00 +0000

This is really bad news for android tablets in general that don’t carry the nexus name.

By: BSweetness

BSweetness — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:34:00 +0000

I know what he meant. My sarcasm detector is turned on. I was just saying that regardless of that, Honeycomb was still a decent upgrade for the Flyer/View from Gingerbread, if for nothing else than the ability to use the Scribe throughout the UI and apps. I owned a View for several months, and the Honeycomb update made it infinitely more useful.

By: Aardvark99

Aardvark99 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:12:00 +0000

I was just pulling out random nascar-like sponsors but going w/ coke vs. pepsi is pure ‘fail’ on my part. Wrangler was stuck in my head from the Dale Jr commercial I just saw, which seemed a but “off” to me – but it’s probably just me.

By: Michael Thomas Maliszewski Jr.

Michael Thomas Maliszewski Jr. — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:17:00 +0000

I think he means honeycomb was no good and should have never been on ANY android device! Look at the android stats and they will tell you just that. The fact that HTC refused to upgrade to ICS on there cells phones as well as tablets is a pretty clear statement that they are suffering with little to no way to get back.

By: James Loper

James Loper — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:32:00 +0000

the sad part is some of us could tell them exactly what it would take to get back into the market. No studying, nothing academic, just plain listing to what we want could revive HTC.

By: Zach Armstrong

Zach Armstrong — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:09:00 +0000

HTC need to step up and roll out updates faster my Droid Incredible 2 is still waiting for ICS and then stop making carrier exclusives. The One X should of been on every carrier not just ATT.

By: truename

truename — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Ouch! lol

By: hkklife

hkklife — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:31:00 +0000

I managed to finally unload my Evo View 4G (that’s the Flyer in black with 2x internal storage + Sprint WiMax). Still a VERY solid piece of hardware that stacks up well to the current crop of 7″ tablets not named Nexus (ie it charges over microUSB, 1GB RAM, 32Gb internal storage + microSDHC slot, 2 cameras etc). It’s just let down by only having a single-core SnapDragon and of course, the dual misery of Sense + Honeycomb. A HTC-manufactured Nexus tablet would have been AWESOME indeed. Heck, I’d be happywith stock ICS or JB on any of the existing HTC tablets, as they are all stylish and well-built devices.
But HTC pushed carrier-branded tablets WAY too hard last year when the market was begging for wi-fi only options and of course, their broken promises and/or continued silence on ICS updates is now legendary. After having been burned on the View and having 3 friends still stuck on the Inc2 and TB ICS updates, it’s fairly safe to say HTC has totally fallen out of favor with most of the diehard Android fans I know unless it’s a future Nexus device.
P.S. As recently as 2 months ago (maybe even less), my local AT&T corporate store was STILL selling the Jetstream on contract for some ridiculous price–$599 w/ a 2yr or so. WTF!!!???

By: Kernschatten

Kernschatten — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:29:00 +0000

I thought they pulled out of the tablet market a year ago.

By: hkklife

hkklife — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:14:00 +0000

HTC needs to tighten the belt drastically AND do lots of fat trimming. Beats was a foolish purchase and never should have happened to begin with. Sense/TouchFlo was a decent alternative back in the bad old WinMob days and earliest Android era but it’s utterly superfluous and totally unnecessary in the post-2.x era.

I’d like to see them blow out their entire Sense staff and become a hardware company exclusively, cutting their Android offerings down to a handful of Nexus releases per year and putting more effort into their WP8 offerings. Dropping tablets is going to be a bad move in the long run, as phablets are going to blur the line between tablet and smartphone. Just because HTC botched their handful of tablet releases doesn’t mean they couldn’t do better–just look at Asus! Besides, any time you see a company becoming too reliant on the carrier/subsidy model for commoditized handsets, it ends up ultimately biting them in the ass (Palm/HP, RIM, Moto, and now HTC). All it takes is a botched release or two on a major carrier and one bad quarter can quickly turn into a gradual death spiral.

I wouldn’t be surprised to ultimately see HTC returning to their roots as an ODM or withdrawing from even more of secondary markets. In hindsight, maybe they should have just purchased Palm and tried to straighten out WebOS and sat on all of that IP.

By: New_Guy

New_Guy — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:09:00 +0000

Well…it at least had something that looked like a tablet