(6 years ago on this date) Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC's smartphone division | TechCrunch

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Google completes its $1.1B deal to buy a chunk of HTC's smartphone division | TechCrunch
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7:11 AM GMT+1•January 30, 2018

Cool, so it's like two years ago

Oh...

Oh no

Buying new hardware engineers in Taiwan, after laying off hardware engineers in the US a couple weeks ago.

Sounds like offshoring to me.

EDIT: This is not recent news. Nevermind. Move along.

This is an article from 2018.
Not sure why OP posted this

It happened 6 years ago day-to-day, just guessed it could remind some people about their HTC memories

That's fair. I do miss the good ol' HTC days.
I'm on the Google Nexus/Pixel train now though

Thanks for updating the title so people don't misinterpret it as happening recently

No worries, I should have done it when I posted, but I thought the 6 years ago was a part of the title.

A few of my friends had HTC in 2008, those were cool devices

The HTC One M8 is still one of the most fun phones I've ever used. I wish IR blasters would come back.

That metal body was so nice. Plus you could unlock just about every part of an HTC.

I miss HTC and the XDA forums for those devices...

I had the evo 3d which had a 3d camera and screen that needs no glasses. It was actually effective and had a whopping 5 hours battery life haha.

5 hours in 2012? That was pretty damn good! Haha

I had the HTC One X which was literally hot. I couldn't use it for a few minutes without it burning my hands.

Not cool.