“Taiwan smartphone maker High Tech Computer Corp. said on Monday it had sold 800,000 units of its own branded HTC Touch phone, launched in Europe and Asia in June,” John Bowker reports for Reuters.
“‘This is better than I expected … We feel very good about our success,’ Chief Executive Peter Chou told Reuters in an interview, adding that the smartphone’s popularity was close to that enjoyed by Apple Inc’s competing iPhone,” Bowker reports. “The iPhone sold 1 million phones in the three months after its launch in the United States, also in June, and Apple is set to begin selling the product in Europe in November.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, who’d they sell them to and what did they give them to drink, inhale, and/or inject to get them to blow their money on that thing?
Let’s take a look at how the HTC Touch compares to the Apple iPhone, shall we?
Apple’s OS X-based iPhone:
HTC’s Windows Mobile-based HTC Touch:
The HTC Touch is a joke.
10,000 to insane asylums across Europe and Asia + 790,000 bulk units to Microsoft in an attempt to prop up Windows Mobile in the face of Apple’s iPhone taking the world by storm.
They were sold in the Asian market. No iPhones there.
Microsoft probably bought up a huge portion of those orders to make Windows Mobile look successful.
They’re sitting in boxes on pallets in some dusty Redmond, WA warehouse never to be opened or used.
iPhones, on the other hand, are actually bought by individual customers and used daily.
Oh, FactChecker, you beat me to it!
No – these are probably real numbers. People in Europe and Asia buy huge numbers of mobiles.
The way you should be looking at this is to see what the market potential for iPhone is hereabouts.
MDN magic word – looking
It’s a potent combination of Bacardi 151, gold spray paint fumes, and black tar heroin.
Plus 750,000 of them were sold to Microsoft on the sly to inflate the numbers.
Aren’t we crafty?
Number of patients suffering from brain damage in Europe and Asia = 8 million.
They could only get 10% of the most severe cases to buy the HTC Touch instead of waiting for the iPhone.
So if Apple can find a million suckers you think HTC can’t find 800,000 more?
These posts are a crock. Grow up people!
HTC Touch is to iPhone as Windows Vista is to Mac OS X Tiger.
Have they actually been sold to people are they in the retail channels? Also, Europe and Asia are pretty big markets and in the absence of the actual iPhone combined with people’s general stupidity I can see how they could come up with these figures.
I disagree. Microsoft didn’t have to buy any – there are more than enough retards in Europe and Asia to account for the number of HTC Touch units sold.
In my experience, the Asians love to waste their money of half-assed knock-offs of all kinds.
i have three iPhones and i don’t like the HTC Touch at all. but i think they will sell 800,000 units due to…
1.) iPhone is now a total closed platform with no 3rd party apps after firmware 1.1.1……what a joke for a “smartphone”
2.) iPhone is unlockable after firmware 1.1.1
very bad move by Apple for killing all 3rd party apps and unlock. Apple should have the number for how many iPhone sold compared to how many activation AT&T;made with iPhone. it is more than likely over 20% of iPhone were sold to non-AT&T;customers
That side by side comparison shows how BAD the HTC Touch really is!
WOW that hurts! (it deserves a repeat!)
MW = later
as in, much later he finally finds and dials the restaurant, and BTW who the hell orders take out steak? That’s just STUPID! So what else is new?