The mobile industry has changed so fast that many of you wouldn’t be surprised to hear that HTC has been thinking about buying their own mobile OS. HTC chairwoman Cher Wang revealed this new information during an interview with The Economic Observer by stating “We have given it thought and we have discussed it internally, but we will not do it on impulse.” While the idea of HTC owning its own mobile platform certainly makes sense as a defensive tactic, we’re not so sure that it a wise choice. The article mentioned webOS several times, but we hope that HTC doesn’t try to revive Palm’s defunct platform and simply prolonging its inevitable demise.
HTC’s focus has been on Android and Windows Phone and we see incredible potential for growth over the next few years. Cher Wang concludes that HTC doesn’t need to be tied to just one platform “We can use any OS we want. We are able to make things different from our rivals on the second or third layer of a platform. Our strength lies in understanding an OS, but it does not mean that we have to produce an OS.”
The success of Windows Phone and Android are mainly due to HTC’s great hardware and software innovations. If HTC does choose to branch out on their own with a new mobile OS, we’ll probably see UI elements which reflect HTC’s current versions of HTC Sense. HTC’s Android phones offer a unique experience that goes above and beyond what stock Android has to offer and we wouldn’t expect HTC to deliver a new platform which downgrades the user experience on any level.
Source: Engadget
HTC with WebOS would be awesome! Maybe if HTC had made phones for this OS it would’ve thrived, instead they came out with these lame weak Pre and pixi.
Its a case of waiting to see what happens ! Sense has been a mixed bag, sometime not responding.
Even a company the likes of Samsung can’t get their Bada OS to take off. I highly doubt that HTC can fully utilize their own OS, especially since HTC only produces high-end phones, which means that whatever OS they use would need to compete with Android, iOS, and WinPho, whereas it’s fine for Bada to be used for lower-end smartphones.