HTC Won't Join the Battle for the Bottom Discussion

[Ed Hardy]

HTC is based in China, so some might think it's going to join the bare-knuckles brawl going on for market share in mainland China. The company's CEO says that's not the case.

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[weegie]

Not surprising, I would imagine it's an even harder market to compete in than the mid/high end, they don't have samsungs component manufacturing or marketing muscle to really even be in the bottom end game of high numbers/low profit.
How they do with their current product range will be interesting to see, I'm not that keen on seeing plastic play such a big part in their high end One X, but the reality is in person that it's a very nice well built device that's got some sort of uniqueness going for it design wise in these times of everything looking similar, this is more along the lines of what HTC has traditionally had to offer the market

[Varjak]

Actually, isn't HTC based in Taiwan? (I know the PRC treats that as 'China', but we do not.)

[Adama D. Brown]

HTC's corporate headquarters is in Taiwan, but their manufacturing is all in China.

[Mi An]

HTC's corporate headquarters is in Taiwan, but their manufacturing is all in China.

Don't most electronics manufacturers worldwide have their manufacturing done in China? It also appears a significant amount of HTC's own wares are made in Taiwan.

[Mitlov]

HTC's corporate headquarters is in Taiwan, but their manufacturing is all in China.

Same is true of my Macbook Pro and my Vaio F2. All manufactured in China. Doesn't make either company "based in China" in my book. I think of Apple as based in Cupertino with Chinese manufacturing, and Sony as based in Japan with Chinese manufacturing (the Vaio Z being one of the only exceptions).

[Varjak]

Exactly. I know HTC builds lots of stuff in mainland China (in fact they are building a giant new campus, aren't they)? But my point is it's not a PRC corporation. Not based in China.

[Drillbit]

HTC is Taiwan corporation. The founders and the owners are associated with the elite families that fled with Chiang Kai Sek to Taiwan. As for manufacturing, HTC actually manufactures in Taiwan, unlike the other Taiwan companies. Sez so right there in the box if you have an HTC phone. "Made in Taiwan".

As much as companies make stuff in China for the low labor costs, companies like HTC (and Samsung in Korea as well) have strong ties with the government and among those ties has to do is give jobs for the local people. Taiwan manufacturers keep the cream of their crop still in Taiwan, and similarly so does Korean and Japanese manufacturers as well for their respective countries.