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Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by bcguy390 »

chris_mahan wrote: post #10

HTC, if you read this: I bought the HTC Droid when it came out (4 years ago, something like that) and I replaced it with a HTC Droid LTE (and one for my wife too). Please don't do this sort of stupid stuff. I can't in good conscience buy another phone from your company, ever, unless you apologize to the boy, his family, and anyone you went after for leaking the info (reinstate the job of anyone fired over that). For…

The real owner of the phone is the one that is going to be in trouble not the kid. However the article did say that neither of the kid's parents work at HTC which most likely means he stole the phone from somewhere. He deserves everything he has coming to him.

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by gagaga »

chris_mahan wrote: post #10

HTC, if you read this: I bought the HTC Droid when it came out (4 years ago, something like that) and I replaced it with a HTC Droid LTE (and one for my wife too). Please don't do this sort of stupid stuff. I can't in good conscience buy another phone from your company, ever, unless you apologize to the boy, his family, and anyone you went after for leaking the info (reinstate the job of anyone fired over that). For…

How did they publicly insult him?

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by mtgoxloser »

gagaga wrote: post #12
chris_mahan wrote: post #10

HTC, if you read this: I bought the HTC Droid when it came out (4 years ago, something like that) and I replaced it with a HTC Droid LTE (and one for my wife too). Please don't do this sort of stupid stuff. I can't in good conscience buy another phone from your company, ever, unless you apologize to the boy, his family, and anyone you went after for leaking the info (reinstate the job of anyone fired over that). For…

How did they publicly insult him?

RTFA! :)

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by chris_mahan »

bcguy390 wrote: post #11
chris_mahan wrote: post #10

HTC, if you read this: I bought the HTC Droid when it came out (4 years ago, something like that) and I replaced it with a HTC Droid LTE (and one for my wife too). Please don't do this sort of stupid stuff. I can't in good conscience buy another phone from your company, ever, unless you apologize to the boy, his family, and anyone you went after for leaking the info (reinstate the job of anyone fired over that). For…

The real owner of the phone is the one that is going to be in trouble not the kid. However the article did say that neither of the kid's parents work at HTC which most likely means he stole the phone from somewhere. He deserves everything he has coming to him.

He's a kid. He might have stolen the phone, or it might have been given to him by someone at his school, or he might have found it on the street, on a park bench, or at a public library. We just don't know. "most likely stole the phone" isn't a true statement.

He's a kid. Is this how we treat children in this day and age? Is this the civilized thing to do?

I don't think so.

Anyway, HTC could simply have said: "Thank you for finding our phone. Please ship it back to us in this prepaid box, and we'll give you a nice reward" (like a flatscreen TV, a Sony PS4 and $500 worth of games, or some equivalent). That would have been completely sufficient.

I'm not saying what the kid did was wrong or not. What I'm saying is that HTC could have handled the situation a lot better, a lot more professionally, and that I hold them to that.

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by sirspudd »

Lots of kids appear to be losing their parents money.

Giving your kids access to tech under NDA is like giving your kids access to guys. You are not going to have a good time.

You can debate the degree to which this kind of secrecy is warranted, but at the end of the day, when you sign an NDA it is legally binding, and you can't simply blame violating that legal contract with a "Kids will be kids"

The phone looks awesome, I really enjoy their design style.

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by sirspudd »

mtgoxloser wrote: post #13
gagaga wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did they publicly insult him?

RTFA! :)

I think that question stands in the wake of reading the article. People seem to arguing that the language used constitutes a threat; I don't see that in the slightest. It isn't overtly friendly, but it isn't menacing.

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by angryasian »

chris_mahan wrote: post #10

HTC, if you read this: I bought the HTC Droid when it came out (4 years ago, something like that) and I replaced it with a HTC Droid LTE (and one for my wife too). Please don't do this sort of stupid stuff. I can't in good conscience buy another phone from your company, ever, unless you apologize to the boy, his family, and anyone you went after for leaking the info (reinstate the job of anyone fired over that). For…

Your reply reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Judge Snyder lets Bart out of any kind of personal responsibility under the "Boys will be boys" rule. I'm sorry but I don't agree. People should be held responsible for their actions and perform their job duties to what is expected. This child's parent should absolutely be held responsible. We live in a society that wants to take no responsibly and sue everyone and everything for our own stupidity.

tldr: take responsibility for your own actions. Parent should have never given a secret device to a child.

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by gph »

chris_mahan wrote: post #10

HTC, if you read this: I bought the HTC Droid when it came out (4 years ago, something like that) and I replaced it with a HTC Droid LTE (and one for my wife too). Please don't do this sort of stupid stuff. I can't in good conscience buy another phone from your company, ever, unless you apologize to the boy, his family, and anyone you went after for leaking the info (reinstate the job of anyone fired over that). For…

Sure one question; Do you think you're little rant is more important to them than guarding their IP and controlling the release of their products?

Because it isn't. And I can't seriously believe you are telling HTC to apologize. The tweets, though misguided, are barely threatening. And whoever works for the company that the kid knows deserves to get fired. They shouldn't have let the phone come into anyone else's possession, especially a kids.

Re: Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy

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Post by chris_mahan »

gagaga wrote: post #12
chris_mahan wrote: post #10

HTC, if you read this: I bought the HTC Droid when it came out (4 years ago, something like that) and I replaced it with a HTC Droid LTE (and one for my wife too). Please don't do this sort of stupid stuff. I can't in good conscience buy another phone from your company, ever, unless you apologize to the boy, his family, and anyone you went after for leaking the info (reinstate the job of anyone fired over that). For…

How did they publicly insult him?

"It's gonna be a bad week for you my friend."

If someone told me that, I'd feel absolutely terrible inside. And that is the definition of an insult.

Since they said that on twitter, that fits the "publicly" label don't you think?

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