HTC and Windows Mobile: Here’s a scary thought
So HTC manufacture the HD2, the most powerful smartphone and Windows Phone current on the market they also produce many other high profile Windows Phones and without the company the Windows Phones would be in a far worse state than the platform currently is. HTC have also worked with Microsoft on the HTC Shift which was one of the best Ultra Mobile PCs from a few years back.
Increasingly HTC are partnering with Google after making the first phone to run Android, the G1, and more recently manufacturing the Google Nexus One. It is also rumoured that HTC and Google are working to make a tablet device that could rival the rumoured iSlate and possibly the Microsoft Courier.
Now here is the scary thought, what if Google bought HTC. For Microsoft this would be horrendous, I know I wouldn’t even consider a Windows Phone without HTC making such great devices. Google could cripple Windows Mobile relatively easily by buying HTC and in doing so give themselves a prime way to design and manufacture their own phones, tablets and netbooks; all of which they believe are the way forward in computing.
The problem here is that Microsoft would not buy HTC as if they did they would lose their other phone manufacturing partners such as LG and then would have to take on a more Apple-like approach to the mobile market, not something that fits well with the Microsoft ethos. Where as Google are already trying to provide their own branded phone and still keep partners within the industry, maybe a tactic Microsoft will try if the gamble pays off.
I don’t think a single company can provide the best hardware for two very different, very competitive companies without something be sacrificed. With Google working very hard on its mobile OS and Microsoft planning to release Windows Mobile 7 by the end of the year I wouldn’t be surprised to see an increasing importance of HTC in the mobile world and some hostile action between Microsoft and Google.
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