Although a few months ago HTC registered a record in terms of smartphone sales, now the company announced that its receipts decreased by 26% compared to the previous fiscal quarter. The CFO of HTC claims that the iPhone and Samsung smartphones were the main culprits of this decline and he is right because Apple sold more than 30 million iPhone 4S terminals in Q4 2011 and Samsung had good sales for its tens of smartphones -hate. The CFO of HTC did not forget to mention the fact that LTE smartphones that are too large and with low battery autonomy had very poor sales and it seems that an important change could take place in the company's strategy.
"Our weakness in first-quarter guidance ... comes from facing competition in the US from iPhone and Samsung," CFO Winston Yung told analysts in a conference call. He declined to provide unit sales numbers.
I for one believe that HTC will recover and it would be good to be so because the Taiwanese company had a completely different approach to the market preferring to make smartphones with a different design compared to iPhones, something that cannot be said about with Samsung copying everything in its way.
