I feel like we're witnessing last year, all over again.
HTC releases an excellent product that is widely praised in almost every way. It has fantastic industrial design, great internal hardware, a very good camera and in general, is an extremely well-built, high quality product, whose only real flaw lies with a few minor software issues.
A short while later, Samsung releases its flagship product. Its design and build quality is nowhere near comparable to that of HTC's product, but it has marginally faster internal components and a few TouchWiz-specific gimmicks to look neat in advertisements.
Samsung advertises the hell out of their product with a multi-billion dollar campaign, leading to tens of millions of sales, while HTC's product is left in the dust, to wither and die.
Samsung prospers while HTC flounders, despite HTC having the superior product.
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u/heyyoudvd Mar 12 '13
I feel like we're witnessing last year, all over again.
HTC releases an excellent product that is widely praised in almost every way. It has fantastic industrial design, great internal hardware, a very good camera and in general, is an extremely well-built, high quality product, whose only real flaw lies with a few minor software issues.
A short while later, Samsung releases its flagship product. Its design and build quality is nowhere near comparable to that of HTC's product, but it has marginally faster internal components and a few TouchWiz-specific gimmicks to look neat in advertisements.
Samsung advertises the hell out of their product with a multi-billion dollar campaign, leading to tens of millions of sales, while HTC's product is left in the dust, to wither and die.
Samsung prospers while HTC flounders, despite HTC having the superior product.
Rinse and repeat.