[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Roefastford:
Verizons money does not mean anything if enough buyers dont buy their phones because of verizon locking the bootloaders and pumping them full of bloatware. Most people hate bloatware as it slows your phone down to turtle speed because their apps ( more like craps ) run when you dont need them. What is the good of a fast processor if their bloatware just uses up your phones resources ???? And for the record htc did ok without verizons money because look how long verizon waited to get the m7 they verizon just shot themselves in the foot because people wanted the m7 on verizon and verizon didnt care. I see htc commercials all the time but yes they are stupid with some old actor yeah smarten up htc and have a popular young actor actress on your commercials as most smartphones are purchased by young people and they relate to young actors or actresses and not some old geezer that himself probably cam barely use and does not even understand 1/2 the features of the phone. Those of us that like htc phones need to clue in our friends and relatives how bad of a choice they are making buying samsung crap htc phones are built so much better and run so much smoother. All it takes is for people to have an m8 in their hands for 5 minutes and they would be thinking samsunk and not samsung as in samsunk is sunk when compared to htc in particular to the m8 people are just too misinformed and dont think purchases through much at all otherwise more would be buying the m8 and its just pathetic how so many people are missing out on such a nice phone just because they dont take 5 minutes to look at a running m8. And verizons sales of smartphones are down the only thing they are selling a lot of is tablets which most new sales are tablets in the sales published you have to look close to see their smartphone sales were way down with most sales activations being tablets. Their smartphone activations might be going up though since July 17th when verizon prepaid finally got lte data about 2 years after the competition received 4g lte such as sprint, then at&t and tmobile no longer contracts and now tmobile is stream music all you want with no data fees. So verizon may see some sales help at least until the verizon mvno's page plus, straight talk, net 10 and many others also get verizon lte on prepaid. Verizon had just been too greedy and thought they were too good to compete and that has taken them down a notch with at&t knocking at their back door closing the gap..

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verizons sales of smartphones are down the only thing they are selling a lot of is tablets which most new sales are tablets in the sales published you have to look close to see their smartphone sales were way down with most sales activations being tablets. Their smartphone activations might be going up though since July 17th when verizon prepaid finally got lte data about 2 years after the competition received 4g lte such as sprint, then at&t and tmobile no longer contracts and now tmobile is stream music all you want with no data fees. So verizon may see some sales help at least until the verizon mvno's page plus, straight talk, net 10 and many others also get verizon lte on prepaid. Verizon had just been too greedy and thought they were too good to compete and that has taken them down a notch with at&t knocking at their back door closing the gap..