That HTC is not doing well in recent years is not something that we have just discovered. We just have to see not only the sales figures of its terminals but also the price policy and how the Chinese competition has eaten up this manufacturer's ground, one of the first to bet on Android.
The first application to disappear from the Play Store was the HTC Mail application last February, although it reappeared shortly after. Sense Home launcher has also recently disappeared, but it seems that it has not been the only one, since other 14 apps have not been published in the last three months.
If we take a look at the HTC applications through App Brian, we can see that both the Sense Home launcher and the People contacts application have been removed this month from the Play Store, in addition to other applications that have suffered the same fate as Mail.
Some of the applications they hadn't been updated for months, so it didn't make any sense that they were still available on the Play Store. However, applications like Mail, Contacts, to give two examples, They are alternative applications to the native ones that are pre-installed in all the terminals that HTC launches on the market, so it is very strange that they have disappeared.
It is not clear what the reason may be, but if we do a little digging, we can quickly draw our own conclusions. The smartphone business is not being as fruitful for HTC as it would like in recent years, so keep developing and updating some applications that very few users use Has no sense.
It is possible that HTC has stopped offering alternatives to those that we usually find in its terminals, and have thought launch their terminals with Android One, thus eliminating the need to continue maintaining your own applications, thus following the same method used by HMD Global - Nokia.