Jun 12, 2024 · HTC, once a leading player in the smartphone industry, rose to prominence in the early 2000s. They were among the first to embrace Android, launching the T-Mobile G1, the first commercially available Android phone, in 2008. HTC’s innovative designs and user-friendly interfaces quickly garnered a loyal following. Peak Popularity and Market ...

Jul 8, 2019 · HTC's share of the global smartphone market collapsed from 10.7 per cent in 2011 to 0.05 per cent in 2019. Current and former employees blame poor business decisions and a company culture that is ...

Jul 31, 2021 · HTC is still doing well, just not in the smartphone industry. What happened to HTC was a great example of “too much of something is not good” because they’ve released so many smartphones that it was hard for consumers to keep up. Sometimes, having a few well-built smartphones is better than saturating the market.

Apr 7, 2019 · Then there's the HTC M9 ads featuring Robert Downey Jr. in a series of bizarre sketches that have very little to do with phones. It's high-concept stuff. It's high-concept stuff. Product saturation

Sep 21, 2017 · HTC’s market share fell from a massive 67 percent to just 32 percent. As HTCfell, Samsung rose. In 2010, Samsung and HTChad roughly the same share of the smartphone market at just over 7 percent.

Dec 11, 2015 · HTC is off the top-50 of Taiwan's stock exchange, and continues to feel the burn as users flee. ... What happened? Despite helping to lead the charge to bring smartphones to the masses over the ...

Apr 6, 2022 · HTC used to be a big deal in the 2nd transformative phase in the Smartphone Industry. We were going from Palm Pilots, PDA phones, BlackBerry and Win mobile phones, to faster more simplified designs, less complicated Uis, and an even bigger focus on Apps, which were more of a side bit for most smartphones prior outside Win mobile.

Mar 30, 2021 · HTC, a pioneer of Android smartphones and a former market leader in the smartphone segment, started to get lost in the middle of the last decade, making, let’s be honest, strange business decisions. Top models, which do not normally make up the majority of Android device manufacturers’ revenue, began to lose ground after Samsung realized ...

Feb 26, 2025 · What Happened To HTC? Once a leader in the smartphone industry, HTC shifted its focus towards virtual reality (VR) after struggling to compete with dominant brands like Samsung and Apple. They continued to release smartphones occasionally, but their primary efforts shifted, especially after a major move in 2017 when part of their design team ...

In this deep dive, we explore the rise and fall of HTC, the pioneering company that kickstarted the Android revolution alongside Google. From creating the wo...