[HTC EVO 3D] WatermelonSlim:
It's a lot more than 1000 people.

I am not singling anyone out here, so nobody in particular get offended by what I am about to say...

This site has several morons who have absolutely no business sense at all. People keep saying things like, "HTC doesn't care about the small minority who root their phones, so the public outrage will be a waste of time."

First of all, HTC has already acknowledged that they DO care about us, are supposedly reviewing their policy right now, and will update us again in the future. So they obviously DO care about us.

In addition to that, common sense would dictate that if so few people rooted that HTC didn't care about them, then HTC would not be locking boot loaders in the first place. It's not like it was free, or even cheap, for them to implement this on millions of devices. If it was such a small minority who even rooted in the first place, they would not have bothered. Plus, they would not want to take such a PR hit to stop such a small minority from customizing the devices that they own and have every right to customize.

Plus, these morons think business, in particular large publicly traded companies like HTC, are fine with thousands of their best customers up and dropping them for a competitor, as long as they have more customers who stay. I have news for you, this is NOT how they work. The shareholders would vote this management out in a heartbeat if they got wind that something like that was happening. They are in the business of getting every customer they possibly can. If they suddenly lose several thousand loyal customers, and Samsung suddenly gains several thousand formerly loyal HTC customers, that means HTC's market share is shrinking while Samsung's is growing. That means HTC earns less money overall, and the shareholder gets a smaller dividend. Plus, all of the execs get a smaller bonus. Like I said, no offense to anyone in particular, but if anyone actually thinks this is happening and even tries to tell others this is the case, then they are a moron with no business sense at all. HTC probably takes in around $400 (or more) off every single Evo 3D sold, and even more off the worldwide phones. If only 2000 or 3000 people dropped HTC over this, that would be at least $800,000.00 or $1,200,000.00 in revenue lost immediately.

And it would actually be a whole lot more than that. There are actually way more than 2000 or 3000 people who would drop HTC. This site alone has over 3,000,000 members, and it was started specifically to mod HTC phones (the XDA was an HTC phone, learn your history.) And in addition to that, HTC got popular BECAUSE of the dedicated and loyal customers that would drop HTC. We were the ones explaining to all the casual users why this HTC phone was better than an iPhone back when nobody had heard of HTC. We were the ones buying these HTC phones the day they were released and proudly showing them off to everyone we know, back when they had never heard of HTC. And we are the ones right now that our casual friends immediately call when they are getting or have just got a new phone, to see what we think. Casual users may have no idea what root is. But casual users almost always have a geeky friend like us that they trust to give them the skinny on which phone to get. And anyone denying this is a moron.

And then we have the fact that pretty much the whole middle east is changing governments because of what the people were able to do on social networks. You think people can bring down the Egyptian government with facebook and twitter but we can't get HTC to supply a key to people who happen to be their most loyal and most important customers, and paid for the phone so they have every right to mod it anyway?