HTC, once a top mobile phone manufacturer has been struggling for years now. The manufacturer hasn’t released any phone this year though it said it will. When it does launch its first phone this year, a number of HTC apps may no longer ship with it.
The Taiwanese company has unpublished a lot of its apps from the Google Play Store which means these apps will no longer be available on its phones. The company’s activity on App Brain shows that it has unpublished 14 of its apps from the Play Store.
These apps include HTC Sense Home Launcher, HTC People, HTC Mail, HTC Speak, HTC Calendar, and HTC Dot View. A number of these apps haven’t received updates in months, so HTC is cleaning house. However, apps like HTC Mail, HTC People, and HTC Calendar are apps that come pre-installed with its phones as alternatives to Google’s own apps.
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One plausible reason according to Android Police is that HTC’s future phones might be Android One devices and not run Sense UI, hence there will be no need for a number of these apps anymore. This makes sense as Android One phones usually ship with Google apps with a few manufacturer apps like the camera app.
