It's not easy to build good phones but there could be other options.. More specifically, it seems like HTC doesn't really care what OS is shipping on their devices, as long as it sells. I wonder if a company could enter a partnership with HTC and do the meego hardware adaption for existing (or soon to be released) HTC phones. Clearly, if there is a demand for meego phones, such a partnership would generate value. The question is how HTC and the partner company would capture this value.. maybe they could sell the meego variant of the HTC phones for a premium price, start their own meego-app store, or something like that (?).