Comments on: HTC CEO Spoon Feeds WinMo, Calls Android Destructive

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[...] past Thursday, HTC launched the HTC HD2 – which they said would NEVER run Android. That doesn’t mean a device with similar specs, Android and a different name isn’t in [...]

By: Shams

Shams — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:16:35 +0000

chou is a perfect google man following the google’s law “Don’t be evil”. he could easily ditch winmo. but he’s giving the chance to an old OS to survive. the old os winmo was the only proper smart phone os with complete development kit 4 years ago when there was no iphone or android. i dont want winmo to be dissapeared. i just want to see that they are giving proper effort to survive and prove that they are not worthless. HTC O2 XDA IIs, Orange SPV M2000, Dopod 700, Qtek 9090, T-Mobile MDA 3, Siemens SX66, i-mate PDA2k, Verizon XV6600, Sprint PPC-6601 all these great phones were originally from HTC; they were simply great in 2004-5.

By: Shams

Shams — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:46:30 +0000

HAIL to mr chou for respecting 13 years partnership with microsoft. without HTCs support we may lose the “once a great Mobile OS”. i hope microsoft will
survive the flood of iphone and android phones and give us something more promising than other smart phones. i used HTC Trinity P3600i for more than a year. when iphone came on the way, i continued to stick with p3600i. after the release of iPhone OS 3.0 & 3GS i found the htc magic/sapphire would be more interesting than latest iPhone. HTC HD2 is amazing but i’ll wait for winmo7 & 1GHz snapdragon based android (2.0) phone with sense UI from HTC. then i’ll decide which one to pick.

i just don’t like the the icons only desktop of iphone & hate the “no multitusking” of it.

By: Outraged Bill

Outraged Bill — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:35:03 +0000

This is outrageous. What an asshat that HTC guy is. He even admitted in the forbes article that WinMobile is tanking, and then he insults his growth market (android). I’d never heard of HTC until I started following Android. What a moron.

Anyway, is there any sort of organized effort to get an HD2-like Android phone? A petition or letter writing campaign or something? I’m just so frustrated with the Android hardware market compared to the iPhone.

I’ve send about half a dozen emails to HTC customer service asking them to produce an Android HD2 and linking to fan sites like this when threads pop up calling for it. I know it’s stupid and little but it’s doing something (they do actually reply with unique responses about half of the time, so I think they are reading it).

BTW, for those who will say the Droid it the iPhone killer: We have a test model at work and … As much as I love Android and support Motorola branching out into this market… to paraphrase Obi Wan, ‘this is not the Droid you’re looking for’ … The keyboard is neat, but really awkward to use because of the 1970’s square pad thing you have to type around. It’s not beautiful and cleanly designed with a maximized screen size like the HD2 or iPhone. (and I’m not a keyboard hater, I actually prefer physical keyboard phones to virtual… I just can’t deal with these crippled keyboards that you have to twist your right hand into some freak claw to type on like the G1 and Droid now.)

By: twrock

twrock — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:17:27 +0000

I gotta think (as others have suggested as well) that the intent was to say “disruptive”. The two words would be very easy to interchange. (Just say them together a couple of times quickly and you’ll see what I mean.) I’d like someone to directly ask him that question (which did he mean), if only to satisfy my own curiosity.

Since I live in Taiwan and talk all day with nationals in both English and Chinese, I can tell you that this would very easily simply be a slip of the tongue, nothing more. Not that it matters that much, but I am curious.

gPhone? I gotta think Google wouldn’t do it. Why would they do it and take the risk of angering all the OEMs/ODMs out there? They have absolutely no need to do it. Just look at the “hand-holding” they did with Moto to put out Droid. I would be really, really, really surprised if they built their own phone and started to compete directly with the companies they need to keep happy. Nope, don’t think so.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:05:33 +0000

oh and as for the gphone, it’s gonna be great. as powerful as teddy roosevelt, gorgeous as merilyn monroe, and i wont be surprised if it is cheaper than a las vegas whore. (only problem: a very small strip at the top of your screen that is completely dedicated to advertisements)

By: Pieter

Pieter — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:01:24 +0000

haha i love it. google does things differently from the rest of the industry. hence, they are destroying the industry as we know it…for the better. of course chou (htc) is pissed. so is any other previous industry leader (garmin, tomtom, etc.). but instead of sulking, they should just use it to their advantage. (make snappier, bigger, better hardware, and smack google nav on it).

By: rj

rj — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:49:35 +0000

At worst Google could be destructive but i’d think they’re being disruptive. Garmin and TomTom came and helped define good affordable personal gps devices but now they’ve gone stale. Is it the way of things nowadays to add a feature and charge more, as being innovative? So yay on Google for shaking out the complacency.

By: Kyanro

Kyanro — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:59:49 +0000

boo yankees

By: Stab Man

Stab Man — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:52:32 +0000

@Jerry — How is Rob being irresponsible by quoting the CEO of HTC? He clearly stated he didn’t take too much from it besides the HD2 not running android… it’s everyone else getting carried away with the speculation, including yourself.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:48:16 +0000

Come on Rob ,

you have to be more responsible than this. He mentions that Google can be destructive in the way they operate, but he did not call the OS Android destructive.

I’m assuming that Google didn’t favor them over any other manufacturer when they were launching Android 2.0. Since HTC launched Android 1.0 with Google.. they probably thought they gained some loyalty points. Or maybe Google did not give them enough time to finish up their sense UI in time for Android 2.0 launch. .. There are many internal things that may trigger that comment but please be responsible…

By: sorin

sorin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:57 +0000

I think his words and actions are full of wisdom. The worst thing that can happen is that Google becomes so dominant that it destroys competition. Don’t get me wrong, I love Google in it’s current state, but they became what they are by batteling with MS and Apple, Yahoo and a lot of other great companies. No company is inherently good or evil. Give them to much power and they become evil, lazy and overconfident.
We now have great products and software because it’s a highly competitive market, but if Google wins it all their desire to inovate will die.
Companies and consumers need to keep a balance between competitors, need to encourage them everytime they come up with something good and punish them everytime they go wrong. We shouldn’t be fans, we need to stay consumers!

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:59:27 +0000

I’d like to see the entire statement that contained the singularly quoted word “destructive” before we form a lynch mob for Chou. It could be taken VERY out of context, not saying it is, but we just don’t know.

By: Héctor

Héctor — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:50:11 +0000

It was known from the beginning that, if the rumors of the gPhone were true, hardware manufacturers would get very angry… This guy seems to confirm that.

By: Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:42:41 +0000

I believe that when HTCs CEO is talking about Google being destructive he really means innovative. Destructive technology is the way of the industry and rather than keep companies around that do not innovate it is better for them to be purchased or just die off. Google is one of the only companies around that makes products for free that are better than any other alternative. And, of course “free” is never really free. We are paying Google with our information and they are serving ads to us that are useful.

So, what if Garmin and TomTom fail. If there is a better company (ie Google) that can provide a superior product for less of a cost, good riddance. If Garmin and TomTom do not want to fail then they need to innovate and make their products have some sort of greater value, which my have been possible, but now looks like it won’t happen (Garmin Nuvi Phone, seriously?).

I use Google everything. If they are careful, if they don’t infringe on me as a consumer, and if they provide better cheaper products, they will win 100% of the time. I love capitalism.