While I agree that carrier control of handsets is one of the deepest dysfunctions of mobile telephony in North America, I think you're wrong about the HTC One X

While I agree that carrier control of handsets is one of the deepest dysfunctions of mobile telephony in North America, I think you're wrong about the HTC One X. After all, HTC did disable the bootloader unlock for the AT&T version and presumably would have done the same for Verizon. Problems the One X has had that have had nothing to do with US carriers and bootloaders: 1. No microSD card slot and no removable battery, making it a trickier sale to existing HTC customers. 2. US customs holdup from the Apple lawsuit that delayed the EVO 4G LTE launch on Sprint and limited supply in the pre-SGS3 period on AT&T. 3. Disappointing European sales (probably due to #1). HTC has had their problems and made their mistakes, but unlocking bootloaders has not been one of them. Remember, with the recent exception of the Verizon SGS3 (and they've already had to partially backtrack with a "developer edition"), Samsung has had wide-open bootloaders the whole time (and employs Cyanogen, to boot).