truthsforme
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obviously not because if he wanted the os to grow he would...you know...not put their flagship phone on a single carrier for 6 months and not even the largest one in america. he might get a little more money on the exclusive deal but doubt that. point is he probably just didn't want to sound to make htc/microsoft angry or something
I have a feeling that the reason for the carrier exclusive is to be able to give their phone an attractive price tag. I bought the Lumia for $450 USD with no commitment. That's fantastic for a 32gb high spec device. Meanwhile the HTC 8x being priced at $550 USD despite it having half the amount of memory as the Lumia. With a contract I believe it was $100 for the lumia ($50 for some time) and $200 for the HTC 8X. So I believe that's the role that carrier exclusive played.
And I also don't believe hat HTC just copied Nokia with bold colors on their phones. I'm sure they were just designing it to match some of the color themes from the tiles.