I feel like you’re exaggerating the impact of this single case on HTC’s long term viability . The article says they rectified the issue in software right away.

I feel like you’re exaggerating the impact of this single case on HTC’s long term viability . The article says they rectified the issue in software right away. HTC died off in the US for many other reasons, I severely doubt this was one of them given it could be software rectified. HTC continued to make many phones ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTC_devices?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTC_devices?wpro... ) after this before being bought by Google ( https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/20/16340108/google-htc-smartphone-team-acquisition-announced https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/20/16340108/google-htc-smart... ) What killed of HTC’s mobile division was the inability to compete in the market against Google, Samsung and Motorola. I’m sure this case hurt some but given how quickly it was fixed, the import ban was likely very short lived. Especially because they had new phones available almost immediately after.