if it's coming and unannounced you don't say anything or you say "not at this time" or any variation of standard non-answer.
And the reason it's disgusting is HTC is a company on the brink, and the biggest carrier in the USA won't cut them slack in favour of branding which I'm pretty sure doesn't hold as much weight as it used to (Droid).
Verizon will bend if you give them something in return (marketing money) HTC refuse every time when it comes to actually marketing their phones. Sony will eventually get Xperia onto Verizon, I know they will because they will promise to bring the co-marketing bucks which is all they really care about.
It's either that, or you create a device so desirable that it draws post-paid customers to the network that is carrying it. That means making deals with the likes of T-Mobile and Sprint who are desperate for hit devices, and marketing the shit out of them then hoping that it catches on. Samsung did this quite successfully with the GS2 and by the end it was on all of the major US networks and then they were in a position of power. HTC will never release a device that is so desirable that people will change providers for. I can see such a phone coming from Samsung or Sony, but HTC as a company are mediocrity reincarnate. They are on their way down for a reason, and it has nothing to do with Verizon being mean to them.
They have been overtaken by Sony and ZTE in terms of sales and market share, neither have a significant presence in the US but are basically so far ahead of HTC in other markets that HTC's relative US strength isn't making up the difference now. There is a reason HTC fell behind, they are not offering compelling devices in the mid-high sector that Sony do well in and they offer very little in the way of budget sector which ZTE are starting to find their way. They have concentrated all of their money and marketing at the high end which incredibly fierce where Apple and Samsung outspend them 50 to 1 and Samsung specifically have so much control over their supply chain (in that they make the fucking components in house) that their margins are higher, or they are able to compete better on price. They made the suicidal decision to leave the low and mid sectors which has allowed Sony to gain a foothold with the Xperia brand and ZTE (and other Chinese brands) to hoover up at the low end and now they find themselves being over-taken by Sony who have done very well to make the Xperia brand into something worth buying and they are now laying siege on HTC's European and Asian high end sales, Xperia Z is going to dominate the HTC One in Europe and Asia and again, because Sony have some level of control over their supply chain it means the Xperia Z/ZL is 599 and the HTC One is 699.
HTC as a company are fucked, but to push the blame onto US carriers or Verizon is wrong. HTC dug their own grave by exiting the mid and low end markets, and now we are seeing the consequences. They have no one to blame but themselves.
