No that's not true. My original conclusion stands. HTC couldn't turn a profit with a "cutting edge" product. Lawsuits are a part of the territory and generally nowhere near the multi billions in revenue for a major company. This article says htc paid msft $5/phone. Not much. Paid apple $1 billion in summer and settled in November which was probably a per phone cost so didn't affect current profits. Had revenues in 2012 of $10 or 11 billion ($9.2 billion jan-nov). Anyway too tired. Will write more tomorrow. Goodnight.
I'm sorry but lower profits after lawsuits does not equal did not turn a profit.
First with 1080p and at a profit - HTC.
Read up well my friend, I have followed *every* case as it's happened. If you want to know the rest, read more than one article.
We're talking about multiple lawsuits here.
Including the spat with Samsung.
And if you want to go along with the idea that market fears compounded by ill-informed blog writers helping to tear down sales had no effect, we'll have to agree to disagree. I've heard and responded to this moving target conversation for years.
The bottom line is that Samsung was not first here as you thought.
Despite HTC doing consistently what you said that they needed to do - get ahead with innovation - every time they do, they get roasted by jackals in the press.
Look up how recently HTC's new model outsold the record breaking Samsung from the previous year and then read how the blog writers managed to report that as an epic fail because Samsung broke a new record that new year.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/apple-and-htc-reach-patent-peace-but-at-what-cost/
Now go read what happened after that.
The last word is all yours, I have nothing more to add.
Have a good night!