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Originally Posted by SaltyDawg
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.
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The reason to bring up marketing is key. If you don't advertise, you don't sell. Sure there are cases where word of mouth makes something extremely popular, but if you have a product to sell, and you don't put the money into advertising, you don't sell a product, regardless of the price. People buy what they know about. If I wasn't on this site all the time, or sites like PhoneDog, PocketNow, etc, I wouldn't know squat about the Eris, or what it does. And those BS "YOU" commercials by HTC don't tell you much about what their phones do. They mainly advertise Sense, despite not mentioning it by name in their ads. People knew about the droid, and came in to see it. Verizon sales people were most likely given more incentives to sell the Droid. If Verizon sales reps are like most other retail sales folks, they get commission. If they get more commission to sell the Droid, which phone would they show a customer?