“There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone — the HTC Dream — in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google to build the Nexus One, the flagship of the Android line,” P.E.D. reports. “How the mighty have fallen.”
P.E.D. reports, “On Monday, HTC reported a 26% drop in fourth quarter profits and warned that revenues could drop 36% this quarter.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dale Eckerman” for the heads up.]
Oh Well.
Thud! Heard something falling on the floor last night.
from Taiwan Focus, January 2012:
Peter Chou “fierce” HTC CEO:
Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) The CEO of Taiwan’s HTC Corp. said Sunday that he has no fear of the challenges in the crowded and competitive smartphone market, thanks to the company’s innovation power.
HTC CEO Peter Chou said his company will embrace the challenges in 2012, even though it is not easy to move forward in the highly competitive market.
“Competition is good. Competition pushes us, helps us to change better and quicker. And we will be stronger,” Chou said at the company’s annual year-end banquet.
“Our competitors are very strong. They are striking us with nuclear weapons. But HTC is an excellent team and a strong army. A good soldier will not fear battles,” he said.
Chou said HTC began to adjust its organization in the second quarter of last year to improve its innovation, since the company was not satisfied with its performance.
“We are not going to compromise our innovation. We are going to make our innovation a big idea, even bigger,” he added. ”
oops, Peter, you got nuked.
“We are going to make our innovation a big idea, even bigger.”
Yeah. Right.
Chou’s comments should have included: “We just have to wait to see what Apple releases next to know where our ‘innovation’ is going to come from.”
Chou = Tool.
“We are going to innovate our innovativeness with innovative innovation! Innovation! Innovation! Innovation! If I keep saying, that means we have it, right?”
——RM
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of copy-catters.
Karma, HTC. HTC, Karma…
I saw the Super Bowl commercial for the Nexus One. It has a pen!
DOA
Wrong phone, it’s the Samsung Note that has the pen.
You’re saying it like there’s a difference…
Such an effective commercial, no one will even remember what product it was for. 🙂
I remember these tools bragging about how they didn’t copy anything from Apple. Thats its the other way around and they were the real innovators. LOL
HTC Desire- worst piece of technology that I have ever been FORCED to own.
Android makers will eventually destroy each other. In 2 years there will only be samsung and Motorogoogle.
ZTE and Huwai both Chinese knock off brands will be going strong even if they never end up being sold brand name style in the US. Of the so-called top tier Android rip off from Apple brands, I suspect your correct.
Gone from ‘Quietly Brilliant™’ to Quietly Whimpering™!
“That’s not raspberry juice detective. That’s blood!” Get the mops out again…
(Steve Jobs) It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager… they blew it. Users shouldn’t ever have to think about it.