This occurs in every manufacturer’s devices, but I’ve seen a disproportionately large amount of HTC phones in bad condition.

Anyway, this is getting boring and tiresome now. It doesn’t really matter what phone you or I like. If you’re happy with yours, that’s cool. That’s all that matters. Don’t let someone on the internet make you think your buying choices somehow make you better or worse than others. I’m just a phone fanatic in general, be it Apple, Samsung, Motorola, etc, so I wanted to give my 2 cents. I call it the way it is, so I had to correct the misconceptions. Peace out and best of luck over there.

That was your question. I answered you with a distinct design language that many people think looks sexy. Period. If you don’t see that, you’re helpless.

1080p and 4g are incremental, just like memory and processor upgrades. How is viewing a screen not considered incremental? Is going from 420 to 720 to 1080 some revolutionary upgrade? Plus when someone goes quad core, most of the rest will decide to go quad core. When someone has 2gb of RAM, same story. Yet you just said these aren’t game changers. Like I said, these are business decisions. You think Samsung or Motorola couldn’t put out 1080p screens before HTC? They simply decided not to. It’s purely business. If you can’t see that, you’re helpless.

You just jump around messily from one issue to another after I keep refuting all your claims. Given that you keep repeating misinformation dogmatically and have yet to disprove anything I’ve said, it looks like you’re the one who sounds just as bad as Apple fanboys. They’re notorious for living in a distorted reality.

You also continue to state misinformation. Past build quality was better than that of recent times, not the opposite which you’re stating.

The S3 is extremely comfortable to hold, but who said the Note 2 is as easy to hold as the S3? That’s your own assumption. The Note is larger, but the curved design improves ergonomics and makes holding a large phone surprisingly comfortable. Again you display poor reading comprehension.

Some of your comments also show you don’t know what you’re talking about. You get simple facts blatantly wrong. For example, neither of the 2 phones have curved screens. Also, the curved design is around the edge of the entire body, not just the top and bottom. That makes holding it in the hand easier and more comfortable. That’s ergonomics.

HTC is hardly known as a game changer. Things like 4g LTE or 1080p or processor speeds are not game changers! They are incremental upgrades. Someone was always going to do it at some point, the timing is simply a business decision. Game changers are things like innovative software or effective ecosystems that improve how a user uses the phone.

You are right though, marketing does play a significant role in market share.