[New post] Opinion: Fake HTC leak proves smartphones have become totally commoditized

Tom Maxwell posted: "Vice president of market research firm IDC Bryan Ma speaking to CNBC last week after Samsung's unveiling of the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+: If you look at the rest of the Android space, admittedly even the stuff they announced last night, it kinda" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on 9to5Google Opinion: Fake HTC leak proves smartphones have become totally commoditized by Tom Maxwell Vice president of market research firm IDC Bryan Ma speaking to CNBC last week after Samsung's unveiling of the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+: If you look at the rest of the Android space, admittedly even the stuff they announced last night, it kinda just blends in with the rest of the market. I don't know if there was that much that differentiated it from the rest of the pack aside from some minor features. And that's what's hitting other players like HTC... It's really just the case where a lot of these products are becoming a lot of the same thing. I'm not trying to be a negative nancy here, but to prove Ma's statements here look no further than the "leak" of a purported new HTC phone that spread around the blogosphere this morning. 6-inch display, 4GB RAM, 3,500mAh battery capacity, water-resistance, extremely thin bezel, similar rear design to every other flagship HTC smartphone from the past few years — nothing outlandish, nothing hard to believe. And that's kind of the point. It's so easy to make up a spec sheet like this out of thin air, and there wouldn't be many around to doubt that HTC might make another phone with just marginal changes. I could have made up a spec sheet in real-time as I wrote the post about it and mine would've been similar to the one that spread around this morning. Not that this lack of annual user-facing revolutionary hardware changes is a bad thing.... Read more of this post Tom Maxwell | August 19, 2015 at 9:50 am | Tags: Android, HTC, IDC, Smartphone, smartphones | Categories: Android, Tech Industry | URL: http://wp.me/p1w6tN-uhW Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from 9to5Google. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://9to5google.com/2015/08/19/fake-htc-leak-smartphone-commodity-evidence/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com