For the one that was the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world and now has to settle for fifth place, problems do not stop arising. HTC has had to revise the revenue estimate it expected for this second quarter. They blame the lower demand for their terminals in Europe and the problems they have had to enter the US market for the patent war. Only China keeps them up.
Something must be doing wrong HTC. The Taiwanese company had had bad results for several months. But they trusted that the release of the three terminals of their One series would make them fly back. For this reason, they had foreseen that in this second quarter that ends at the end of the month they would enter 2.500 million euros. But now they have lowered that forecast by 100 million euros.
The reasons they have given have been mainly two. In Europe, where its HTC One has been on the market for several weeks, sales are being much lower. A company executive explains it because of the economic crisis and the great competition in the mobile sector.
The other reason they have given is the problems that some of their new devices are having to enter a market as important as the United States. Specifically, and as we have already told here, several of its terminals have been detained at the border until the US authorities reviewed them to see if they were infringing several Apple patents. A few months ago, the apple company got a court to force HTC to change some elements of its software. Now they wanted to check if it was done.
Although the customs hold was temporary, HTC got up today with the news that Apple is back on the rampage. Now he wants the United States justice to take precautionary measures (such as blocking) against 29 HTC devices, practically all the models it has manufactured in the last two years.
The only good thing for HTC is that China is becoming its main market. HTCs continue to sell well there.
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