If there is a company that is going through its worst time this is undoubtedly HTC. The Taiwanese company has not raised its head for a long time And when the rumors sounded that she could be in charge of the manufacture of the Google smartphones that we know today as Pixel, everyone thought it would be a good injection of morale and money to continue holding the guy in this tight market, but nothing further from reality since HTC continues to show signs of weakness with the departure of its offices in Spain, with the decrease in the production of devices and Now last year's sales estimates are added, which are really low.
The reports and sales estimates for 2016 from HTC in the absence of official company data speak of about 10 or 12 million devices sold, a figure that is somewhat lower than that obtained in 2015 in which they managed to reach 18 million units sold. In short, these are the income data that they show us with a graph in Engadget:
In any case, the firm founded in 1997 and that was one of the strongest companies in the telephony sector and today it is quite difficult for it to go back to what it was in its day. Therefore, in statements to some media, the CEO of HTC himself, Cher Wang, seems convinced that they have to focus more on virtual reality with their HTC Vive, as he well says in the middle The Telegraph.
This week the new models of the U range are expected to be launched and it is expected that they will show something new during the Barcelona event, the Mobile World Congress -a different or renewed HTC 11 with a competitive price- to arouse the interest of the media, users and operators to go back a bit during this 2017. In any case It seems that it will be difficult to return to the privileged place that they enjoyed for many years, but that does not mean they have to stop trying.