“HTC, Asia’s No. 2 smartphone maker, is confident of defeating Apple in an ongoing patent fight, a senior HTC executive said,” Kim Yoo-chul reports for The Korea Times. “‘We have no question that HTC will definitely win,’ said Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia in a press conference with South Korean reporters at an event to unveil its advanced LTE-based smartphone at a Seoul hotel, Wednesday. ‘HTC is waiting for a final ruling from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) and the ruling will be on our side,’ the senior company executive said.”
“The USITC is currently reviewing HTC’s claim over patent infringement by Apple,” Kim reports. “‘HTC will be more active in defending our intellectual properties,’ according to the executive.”
“HTC admits that it plans to develop its own mobile operating system (OS), joining an industry-wide trend,” Kim reports. “HTC, however, [is] on a slippery slope in terms of its development phase in its own OS as it would lack available applications. If the HTC OS turns out to be a complete failure, analysts think it could be catastrophic for the firm… An uncompetitive and content-lacking OS would set HTC back and undoubtedly drag down its brand loyalty.”
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