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Originally Posted by dishe
If anything, HTC might look like a hero to the few who are in the know, and sell more devices as the "open platform phone" to the cult followings. Sprint could create their own firmware and warn that if you tinker with custom ROMs, you are on your own. I think they're policy is sort of like this already, and we are already creating/flashing unsupported ROMs... so really the only difference is that HTC hasn't helped out the community and hasn't come out as the hero yet.
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I'm pretty much 100% sure that the carriers like Sprint have a contract with HTC that says that they can't provide resources like this to the general public, for the reasons I stated previously. So in this regard, HTC's hands are tied and this issue was decided when Sprint agreed to buy the Titan model from them.
As far as the device operating correctly, totally HTC's fault. I do believe they have seriously stretched their resources with all the different models they are trying to release. My bet right now is that either the Touch is going operate perfectly (because they have diverted resources to work on it from other projects) or it's going to be a worse nightmare than the Titan ever was.