Samsung, to be frank, is successful because they blatantly copy other companies (court cases to prove it). Samsung is the Apple of Android manufacturers. They sell millions of devices, have huge marketing budgets, and are more than happy to litigate to protect their stuff. They won't break the mold, won't significantly change Touchwiz, and will become stale over time because of this. They have reached the point where people want a "touchwiz" phone because they got used to it on their older device. Call it success if you want (financially it is), but some things they choose to do hold back the platform as a whole (blame Google for not having more control, but we love open source right?) (menu button, SD card both go against Google guidelines). Who cares about Google guidelines? Developers. How can they reliably code an app for the way Android should work if manufacturers are purposely throwing those out the window?
LOL. Burn!
How dare you post this on an Android forum!
I'm not giving HTC a pass, though, either. They had a rough 2011 and didn't have any real blockbuster devices. I blame them solely relying on Qualcomm as part of the reason. Why not make a Tegra 2 device and take advantage of that marketing?
How effective do you think the Tegra 2 marketing as a whole was? I don't know anyone that bought a phone simply to buy Tegra Zone games. Didn't Tegra 2 also have problems with LTE like Nvidia is having now? Once LTE took off, I didn't really notice Tegra devices taking off.
Or it could just be that I go to work ever day surrounded by 20 or so buildings that have Qualcomm on it....
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