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> most of its famous engineers and personnel have long since jumped ship so 2 VPs, and a third that jumped ship...to Google...ok Admiral...salutes
by ndesaulniers 9y ago
> most of its famous engineers and personnel have long since jumped ship
so 2 VPs, and a third that jumped ship...to Google...ok Admiral...salutes
- vvanders 9y agoPretty much all the good engineers I knew on the US and Taiwan side left years ago. Once Samsung started dropping $B on marketing it was unfortunately only a matter of time. Your average consumer doesn't do deep research and tends to just buy what's advertised heavily. Source: Ex-HTC from '10 era.
- asafira 9y agoI mean, it's likely because it is really hard to differentiate in the smartphone market. The things that change y/y are kind of minute details in the scheme of things. (It's not like a competitive smartphone today would release without a GPS chip, for example)