{"id":659532,"date":"2013-05-22T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=162984"},"modified":"2013-05-22T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:53:00","slug":"htcs-chief-product-officer-departs-and-former-product-strategy-manager-tells-everyone-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659532","title":{"rendered":"HTC\u2019s Chief Product Officer departs and former Product Strategy Manager tells everyone to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/162984-htcs-chief-product-officer-departs-and-former-product-strategy-manager-tells-everyone-to-quit\/htc_tweet_eric_l_quit_now\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-162986\" alt=\"HTC_Tweet_Eric_L_Quit_Now\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HTC_Tweet_Eric_L_Quit_Now.jpg\" width=\"511\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HTC has had it woes over the last couple of years and the hope is that the beginning of the end will be the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/reviews\/phone\/htc-one-review-the-best-phone-on-the-planet-but-is-it-good-enough\/\">HTC One<\/a>. That could be the case, but it seems that either HTC is cleaning themselves of some employees or they are leaving on their own. \u00a0Chief Product Officer Kouji Kodera, communications chief Jason Gordon, global retail marketing manager Rebecca Rowland,\u00a0director of digital marketing John Starkweather,\u00a0and product strategy manager Eric Lin have all recently departed. In the case of Eric Lin, he tweeted, <em>&#8220;To all my friends still at @HTC\u00a0&#8211; just quit. leave now. it\u2019s tough to do, but you\u2019ll be so much happier, I swear.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is HTC finally hitting bottom?\u00a0Unfortunately until they figure out that consumers buy products based on features, not quality, things won&#8217;t change too much. HTC has been making great phones, and yours truly bought one, but unfortunately I&#8217;m not the demographic. Mainstream consumers are and HTC needs to take care of them in order to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>sources: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fallthingsd.com%2F20130521%2Ftroubled-phone-maker-htc-hit-by-wave-of-staff-departures-including-chief-product-officer%2F&#038;sref=rss\">AllThingsD<\/a>, <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fericlin%2Fstatus%2F336608522420764672&#038;sref=rss\">@ericL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/162984-htcs-chief-product-officer-departs-and-former-product-strategy-manager-tells-everyone-to-quit\/\">HTC&#8217;s Chief Product Officer departs and former Product Strategy Manager tells everyone to quit<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/-rX_KCv8icA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC has had it woes over the last couple of years and the hope is that the beginning of the end will be the HTC One. That could be the case, but it seems that either HTC is cleaning themselves of some employees or they are leaving on their own. \u00a0Chief Product Officer Kouji Kodera, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}