Most Americans may not realize it, but Taiwanese tech company and once giant Android manufacturer HTC still makes smartphones. It’s just that, five years ago, HTC largely abandoned the U.S. market — when HTC launched the only phone listed on its current American-facing website: the blockchain-centric Exodus. A July 2019 Wired article suggests that, among other reasons, devoting itself to carrier exclusives — as well as pricing its phones way higher than its competition — hurt the HTC brand in both the U.S.
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