The HTC One has been a great success thus far for the struggling company with more than 5 million units sold to date. While it's a great number, HTC claims it could have sold even more if it wasn't for supply shortages. It's not new news that the HTC One did suffer some serious supply shortages upon its release earlier this quarter. What's interesting about this comment by HTC is that they're not blaming the lack of supplies via production, but yet they're blaming other companies like Samsung claiming they use it as a “strategy” to essentially bottleneck other companies such as HTC in selling more of their devices.
HTC's own Jack Tong used the HTC Desire as a prime example of this. 2 years ago when the Desire was selling quite well for the company, they had to halt the production and ultimately affected some of its sales because Samsung stopped supplying the company with the AMOLED screens that were being used on the device. HTC was forced to slightly redesign the phone and supply it with an LCD screen instead. It was then that Tong mentioned,“We found that key component supply can be used as a competitive weapon.”
source: Focus Taiwan
I’m guessing dependence on carrier more than necessary for marketing had nothing to do with it? HTC is still making the same mistake, although I applaud their stance on not modifying THE HTC ONE to suit specific carriers.
>We found that key component supply can be used as a competitive weapon.
What a surprise! Who would even thinksuch possibility?!
Certainly not some experienced businessman, right?
Other than the Qualcomm 600 CPU the Galaxy S4 and the HTC One did Samsung shared another component ? I see where HTC is coming from..
Samsung is providingHTC with the 32GB Nand Flash memory for example (Reference number: Samsung KLMBG4GE2A) and probably the 64GB one as well, so YES they can stop supplying them to sabotage HTC One production/sales ! Pathetic !