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Originally Posted by tokuzumi
It was not a head to head battle. They were released at about the same time. But one was advertised. One wasn't. Guess which one sold more?
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with the 3 year marketing campaign of the iPhone. All I'm saying is marketing sold millions of iPhones. Marketing sold millions of Droids. iPhone and Droid were given halo phone status on AT&T and Verizon, respectively. Droid Eris was not marketed anywhere near the amount of the Droid, and sold much fewer units. If the Droid was given generic marketing from Verizon, and the Eris was given the marketing campaign of the Droid, you would see a huge increase in the number of Eris sales, compared to sales of the Droid.
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So hold on, you're saying it wasn't a battle just because the ass kicking the Eris took was so bad? I have news for you- HTC was in fact hoping and trying to sell phones to the same exact market that Motorola was. Just because Motorola did a better job than HTC doesn't mean there was no battle. There was a battle. Motorola just won in epic fashion.
And you keep bringing up the marketing point- why? Again, the fact that Verizon chose the Droid over the Eris as the flagship device, and marketed it as such, just goes to show that Verizon liked that device better and thought it would sell more.
There is just no denying these facts- the Droid and the Eris were released at about the same time, they have similar functionality, similar OS, run the same apps, sit right next to each other in the stores, and have a significant difference in price. The more expensive one sold a ton more- and it also marketed the fact that it has a keyboard while other devices don't.
So that brings us full circle... HTC aparently dropped keyboards in a bid to imitate the iPhone because the iPhone was so successful (marketing aside). Now HTC got destroyed in a head to head battle with a more expensive device that runs the same OS- and has a keyboard.
Hopefully HTC will take notice and understand that a lot of people actually do want a keyboard.