So the two additional factors that led me to the S4 over the HTC One. And let's again admit it, the HTC One is a much better looking phone. It doesn't have the generic Samsung feel of the S4.
Corporate Support
HTC has had some troubles lately. Chief Product Officer, CEO of Asian Operations and the COO have all left. That's what I found with a 30 second Google search. I'm sure if one started a lot of sleuthing at LinkedIn the story would become even more damning.
The number one gripe of the Android ecosystem? Fragmentation. Good vendor support, reduces (not removes) this issue. Samsung is better than most at pushing up to dateish OS upgrades. That's not saying much since most non-Nexus owners have resigned themselves to (or are ignorant of) the fact that their operating system is not going to be the most recent version of Android. It's probably ignorant off...
But that doesn't really matter because...
Community Support
I use CyanogenMod anyways. So essentially what I bought was a raw piece of material with a fast processor, great specs, nice display to run a custom cut experience of Android... and I love it. TouchWiz acts like 20lbs weights attached to the phones running shoes, take those off and the device flies.
Now CyanogenMod isn't totally stable and sometimes things break...
One time the mute button had broken in a nightly build... fast forward to a phone conference... brushing my teeth with the phone on speaker phone, obviously 'muted'... I didn't live that one down for a while. I
But overall CyanogenMod and the hundreds of other customer rom developers out there do a decent job at providing a nice experience with up to date OS for almost any Android phone out there. But again I felt the S4 was just going to get a little bit more attention because of its massive marketing share numbers.
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