Well that's a turn for the good! But will it mean they will unlock the Sensation or just leave that as is and possibly leave the newer phones from now on unlocked?
Still won't change my position on Samsung though
Unless HTC's next phone is uber thin and sporting AMOLED!
We will have to wait and see I guess eh. I assume, if they do change policy (reasonably good chance since they mentioned it) it will be via a fastboot command or something.
My feeling on it is this:
If they decided they weren't ever going to change policy, why would they bother mentioning it, and possibly inciting an even bigger backlash. Surely, if they have mentioned it now, they will do something about it. Getting people's hopes up and then dashing them will cause them more harm, than if they hadn't ever mentioned it.
Even if they don't unlock already shipped devices, we might see some "leaked" engineering bootloaders to deal with the currently shipped devices.