I remember getting an HTC phone as a birthday present right out of college, it was a big deal back then, my best friend who had just made some pretty good returns from his business as at that time got it for me and my friends saw it and they were amazed, HTC was a phone for the big boys and girls back then so I was really excited to be a part of the users of the product, but now I really do not think people still make use of this product, it is no longer in vogue and just like me you may also be wondering what happened to the HTC mobile products and why did they just disappear.
Facts you may not know about HTC.
HTC was the first mobile brand to produce an android device.
HTC was at a certain point, the largest manufacturers of mobile devices. Their value overtook that of apple.
It was HTC who designed Google’s first hardware mobile device.
HTC was the first mobile device to produce a touch screen device.
The metal phone design we have today amongst mobile devices was introduced by HTC.
The last time HTC produced a mobile device was in 2018.
HTC was able to add the feature of a good speaker to their devices, during those times when most devices had bad speaker usage.
The Success Story of HTC.
Cher Wang was a very young school graduate in her prime, born in 1958 she had obtained a bachelor’s degree in the University of California and she worked at a Japanese firm to obtain knowledge, she later had the dream to begin her own company and that gave rise to the birth of ‘’High Tech Cooperation (HTC)’’. The firm started out by producing small sized computers according to the CEO she wanted to produce a computer that was different from the very large ones and was stressful to move around to mobile devices that was highly different from what was produced back then.
It was HTC that produced the first 4G smart phone in America, after some years of Cher Wang being the CEO, Peter Chou took over the position from her and he was known to be highly disciplined, he takes his time to scan through every mobile device produced, checking for any mistake made in the hardware or software packaging.
The Emergence of Samsung.
HTC as at 2010 was a brand everyone wanted to associate with until Samsung began to offer very competitive features with a pocket friendly price. HTC decided to diversify as it started to invest in several other companies which eventually failed, not forgetting the fact that Samsung was focused on the development of mobile devices and marketing at the same time.
The administration of HTC mobile devices simply believed in class and nothing else, they did not focus on marketing like Samsung and apple did and as at 2011, the stock market value of HTC dropped from 67% to 32% and that of Samsung increased greatly from 4% to 27%.
The extremely perfect nature of the CEO of HTC did not sit well with some of the top employees any longer, so they left the company very fast as it kept failing. Cher Wang came back to take over the company as the CEO again and she knew that they had failed in the mobile world, they moved quickly to creating virtual devices and they were doing fairly well there owning 13% of the market until Google bought half of the company in 2017.
The company is now more focused on future technology, machine learning artificial intelligence and blockchain.