Opinion: Fake HTC leak proves smartphones have become totally commoditized - 9 to 5 Google
If you look at the rest of the Android space, admittedly even the stuff they announced last night, it kinda just blends in with the rest of the market. And that’s what’s hitting other players like HTC… It’s really just the case where a lot of these products are becoming a lot of the same thing. I’m not trying to be a negative nancy here, but to prove Ma’s statements here look no further than the “leak” of a purported new HTC phone that spread around the blogosphere this morning (mockup turned out to be one that popular leaker @evleaks... It’s so easy to make up a spec sheet like this out of thin air, and there wouldn’t be many around to doubt that HTC might make another phone with just marginal changes. I could have made up a spec sheet in real-time as I wrote the post about it and mine would’ve been similar to the one that spread around this morning. It’s actually probably for the best, as all the competing smartphone players are finally reaching a feature parity and the stereotypical complaints of yesteryear that fanboys lobbed at the other of their favorite platform are very much falling... Source: 9to5google.com
