[HTC EVO 3D] WatermelonSlim:
1: Your point is flawed. HTC phones were easily unlocked. HTC then went out of their way to make then impossible to unlock. The community freaked out about it, and HTC compromised by promising to give us a way to unlock them in the future. Then the Evo 3D was released. We still had no way to unlock it. The awesome devs in the community figured out a way to unlock it. HTC patched it with an even tougher locked down firmware. Quite a while later (months, if I remember correctly) HTC released the unlock tool. The catch was, this tool did not fully unlock the phone, and you were required to register with them and void your warranty. This is not developer friendly.

2: Regardless of why it is down, the fact is it is down. You used the site as an example of being friendly to the developer community, but the fact is the site was taken down.

3: So if they are so developer friendly, and so good about releasing source code, then where are the Evo 3D drivers? I'm not living in the past, I'm telling you the reality of the situation. HTC holds onto their source code, and they don't even hide this. send them an email about it and they will respond telling you that their source is proprietary and they don't have to release it. That's how they roll these days.

4: So what if 90% of people won't know how to unbrick it? The only reason most people don't know how to unbrick it is because HTC kept it secret. If they had told everyone this was possible, then more people would know about it. And why did they keep it secret? probably because they knew it could be used to fully unlock your phone, and being as developer friendly as they are, they did not want people to be able to do that. That's why they released the HTC unlock tool which doesn't fully unlock the phone. I'm pretty sure anyone who takes the time to actually get s-off will be comfortable unbricking their phone if HTC actually told them how.

5: I'm not the one missing the point here. You're saying HTC had previously had a bad track record, you are the one missing the point. HTC did NOT previously have a bad track record. They were the most developer friendly company out there. Then RECENTLY they started locking phones down. It's only RECENTLY that they got this bad track record. And they have done absolutely nothing to change this. They still don't fully unlock phones, they still make you register and void your warranty in order to get their unlock (which isn't even fully unlocked), and they still claim their source code is proprietary and refuse to release it in a timely manner (see the Evo 3D for evidence of this).

When Motorola started acting like this, nobody claimed they were developer friendly. To say Motorola is not developer friendly, but then say HTC is, doesn't make a lot of sense. Motorola locked their phones down, just like HTC. The community figured out how to root them and flash ROMs, but not how to get s-off. Motorola started releasing unlocked phones with s-off (but I think they were all only released over seas, USA phones were locked down at the carriers' request). So if you can get a custom ROM on a Motorola phone but can't get s-off, and that makes them hostile to developers, then why is HTC developer friendly for basically the same thing?

HTC had been doing it right for many years. They quickly "broke" the system. So expecting them to quickly "fix" it is not out of the question. Especially now that they are losing market share and money to the more developer friendly Samsung.