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Originally Posted by itsall_cooool
HTC, Verizon, Sprint....
This is an old story and there are tons of info about it... there was even a class action organization threatening to sue HTC. Silly, because HTC never claimed to have or provide the drivers, Qualcomm never claimed to have provided them, and none of the device carriers claimed they were included.
Basically, no one ordered the video drivers for the hardware included in the Qualcomm chipset so they were never created. Qualcomm wont produce them for the public because HTC is their customer, HTC won't pay for them because Sprint, Verizon (and all other carriers using devices with the chipset) are their customers... and apparently (rightly so) none of the above would care to piss off their main customers. We end users have no say in the matter.
At this point the costs would be huge because the Carriers would need to prepare upgrades/upgrade support/upgrade documentation/tech support training, etc etc. for every device that would get the upgrade. Since most devices are replaced by newer models within a year or two, no one wants to pay the price, and, according to public responses issued by HTC, its not a simple matter of just dropping dll's into a folder, its a major code re-write, so we are probably talking about Rom upgrades for a zillion different devices which use the chipset.
I am not defending any of these actions, just giving my interpretation of all the info I have seen over the past months. I am sure that when a newer, snappier device comes out I will be one of the first in line to shell out money for one, but you can bet I will read the specs more carefully this time around !!
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I've read this exact argument over at xda. The issue wasn't that the drivers weren't provided so much as it was that
informed buyers were purchasing these devices based on assumptions made from blanket statements by HTC and the abilities of the internal workings (Qualcomm chipsets).
I think if both HTC and Qualcomm were a little more careful about how they built these devices, this wouldn't be an issue and people wouldn't have been so quick as to snatch them up.