kfc wrotevegetaleb wrote-Amhaz business is down
-HTC has less popularity than samsung hence much more stocks of S7 brought and sold so price can change more fluently
-Price of the HTC 10 didn't really drop internationally
The first 2 points apply to LG G5 too. The 3rd point confirms HTC's arrogance.
It's not arrogance, they picked a marketing a la iphone, premium build with aluminum, premium sound system and the best skinned Android UI you can find specially compared to samsung phones which are more into quantity than quality, and we saw the result this year with the burning Note 7.
I had all hTC phones since the Nexus 1 and apart the M7's camera purple fault I never ever had any hardware problem.
That doesn't mean that htc and iphones are 100% reliable and durable, you will always find 1 unit over 10000 that will have a problem.
But the perfectionism of the UI compared to the childish immature UI from samsung and the more ''classy'' feeling of aluminum (against glass) give them a marketing positioning to keep prices higher, it's pure marketing.
Another example: I bought a Fujifilm camera X-T10 that comes with a kit lens in plastic aka XC lens, though all other lenses from Fuji are made in Japan and metal and have a starting price of 450$, do they give a much better image quality? No, it's just so faintly better that you won't notice it, but they sell these metal lenses much more expensive than the plastic ones because it's metal and more durable, does it explain the +300$ in price? No, in factory a metal casing will cost them just 20$ more. But they use this spec to sell at a much higher price marketing wise