“High Tech Computer, the Taiwan based smart phone maker, has reportedly sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the Touch family of handsets,” Anshu Shrivastava reports for TMCnet.
“HTC Touch made its debut last year in June, a few weeks ahead of the iPhone. The HTC Touch uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 software and has a touch screen that takes up most of its face, similar to the iPhone,” Shrivastava reports.
“At last week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company had sold 4 million iPhones since launch,” Shrivastava reports.
Full article here.
If there’s no accounting for fools, someone forgot to tell HTC and Microsoft.
Apple’s OS X-based iPhone:
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h5-VZoEhi0
HTC’s Windows Mobile-based HTC Touch:
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivxGe2znZQI
I wonder how many knock off copies of Vista have been sold in Asia or Worldwide?
Not that many I’d wager!
not everyone wants the best product or will even acknowledge that there are better products.
Wish all you fanboyz will get over it.
Be proud that everyone doesn’t have or want an Apple product.
I don’t want my competitors using the same superior equipment as me.
Leave it alone already.
Just because you/me/we are correct does NOT mean that others will listen…it is human nature.
my 2 euros
mikal
This news has chairs flying in Cupertino. All of Apple’s R & D money as well as the Apple propaganda machine can’t hide the fact that the HTC Touch is way cooler than an I-Phone. From the innovative Windows Mobile to its remarkable touch interface the HTC Touch has revolutionized mobile phones and for the better.
Besides, Apple’s Multi-touch system is too complicated—the awkward two fingers on the I-Phone vs. the simplicity of one finger on the Touch—and the I-Phone is prohibitively expensive. The HTC Touch is all anyone talks about. Back to the drawing board, Apple. Again.
Hey Apple, what does it feel like to have Microsoft and their magnificent partners kick your ass time and time again?
Your potential. Our passion.™
HTC needs a better looking hand model.
re: Apparently they’ve learned a trick or two from Microsoft.
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So M$ taught them how to extort, create inferior products and user interfaces and screw the customer for every penny they can get while making the customer think they have got a good product.
Great business model you have there!
“I wonder how many knock off copies of Vista have been sold in Asia or Worldwide?”
Actually, it sells quite well. Usually for five dollars a copy.
Black market MS goods are huge all over Asia. Vista is packaged with Mickey Mouse in Christmas garb. That’s ironic.
China and many other Asian nations have zero respect for intellectual property ownership. Remember the original iMac ripoffs?
People in Asia will buy crap because they can.
Fsck off ZuneTang, you village idiot.
Ampar-bot:
“This comment is just a placeholder for a stupid pun that I’ll think of later. God I love humor of the 1930s.”
Good times.
Taco Bell’s new Gordita wrapped soft taco is also doing very well…
No, people in Asia will buy crap because the real thing is often not available, or is retiredly overpriced.
People in the US will buy crap *food* because they can.
Zune Tang, you were better when there were some random facts in your comments. Reading your latest posts, it seems like you don’t even try anymore.
WOW! I played both videos at the same time & the guy took 3 times as long to do what the iPhone guy did. Pathetic!
PEOPLE:
Ignore the trolls.
When reading through the comments here I simply skip over the trolls like ZT. It’s not worth cluttering my thoughts with intellectual pap.
I recently changed mobile providers, one of the reasons being that I got a nice new – and free – Motorola KRZR K3 (an upgraded, 3G version of the K1, and IMHO the sexiest RAZR variant yet). If I went for a more expensive plan, I could have gotten a Touch for free. No thanks!
Given that I am in Australia, I’m sure they’re giving heaps of these away in Asia. They’re just competing with other crappy “smart” phones that the mobile providers also give away for free – I doubt anybody’s actually paid for one.
Let me just say that of all the responses to my posts here at MDN Hairy Wolf’s is my favorite. I’m flattered.
Your potential. Our passion.™
“Has any one used one?
It can’t be as bad as the clip, can it?”
i have said it before, i will say it again.
yes, i have used it.
no it isn’t as bad as the clip.
…the clip makes it look MUCH better that it is in reality.
Stupid is as stupid does. Those dumb enough to waste there money on the HTC, I’m sorry.
Don’t concern yourself MDN, it’s just training wheels for people till they can get the real thing.
I’m more concerned about the frigging love compatability bullshit I keep getting when I came here. I’m the only guy in the office who gets them. And I’m the Mac head.
You are not helping the cause.
I concur with shen’s succinct review of the HTC Touch.
The iPhone was only officially available in the US for most of the first 200 days. Late in that period it became officially available in 3 more countries (Germany, France and UK.)
The HTC Touch has been available for a longer period of time, in a much wider range of countries. It has been available both from a much wider range of carriers and as a stand-alone model. Despite that overwhelming potential sales advantage (official exposure and support for potentially billions of customers that the iPhone has yet to reach) they only managed to sell half as many units. That’s assuming the best-case scenario for HTC and Microsoft, that they are playing by the same rules and counting sales instead of units shipped. If they are actually counting units shipped, and the carriers and retailers are holding a significant number of those in retail, it looks even worse for them.
Either way you slice it, it illustrates two things:
– Regarding the HTC Touch, the wisdom of P.T. Barnum still applies.
– The comparatively much more impressive market response to the iPhone shows that there is a market for quality products when they are truly, groundbreakingly useful. That having been said, getting it right is still a balancing act, and Apple has been too far ahead of the curve on previous occasions.
@ dude247
Congrats, dude! You covered every bullet point on the list.
{looney spotted}
And… “dude247”?
Didn’t I see you on Chris Hansen’s show?
HTC -Touch it with a sledge hammer.
however… you can install apps on an htc touch.