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Given the continual push of the Chinese manufacturers both upmarket and into wider areas of business than HTC themselves, it&#8217;s likely that HTC will finally collapse and join Motorola, Nokia, and others in the once great phone manufacturers that ends their lives slowly dying as a bought out brand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/11136\/htc-to-exit-entrylevel-phone-market-later-this-year\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The once market leading HTC has been forced to pull out of the less profitable end of the cellphone business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_1471.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lA9R-38","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":158,"url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=158","url_meta":{"origin":194,"position":0},"title":"The world without an iPhone\u00a0","date":"January 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The linked article (see below) postulates that the world without an iPhone would be a more interesting one. 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