2015 has been absolutely gruesome for HTC

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The company reported its June revenue numbers recently and they’re absolutely brutal: For the month, HTC hauled in just NT$8.7 billion (~USD$280 million), which represented more than a 60% decline from the NT$21.9 billion in revenue it reported in June 2014. This is the second lowest revenue total that HTC has reported since 2007 — seriously, this number is almost the worst HTC has performed in eight years.
 
But that’s not the only grisly detail of HTC’s financial woes, as Amadeo informs us.
 
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I think the problem with selling Android phones is that they are all pretty similar.
 
If a phone brand is not one of the big Android phone makers like Samsung, Lenovo, Huawei, etc which has a lot of existing users, less popular brand will have a difficult time selling smartphones at a profitable price because a lot of people buy the hundreds of cheaper Android phone brands like Blu, Polaroid, RCA, Kodak,  IRULU, POSH, etc which sell phones which cost $40-100 for very little profit on eBay, Amazon, and Craigslist.
 
Hate to hear this, no doubt the company will be cutting back meaning most job losses.
 
alakazam said:
Did HTC come out with any new smartphones this year? I didn't see anything new from them... They have the same M8 devices from last year...
HTC came out with the M9, and different versions of the M9 like one with a bigger screen, and another with a plastic case instead of metal.
 
alakazam said:
Oh... Well, I've never seen any ads for it, or any review videos on YouTube. They didn't invest a lot in advertising, did they?
I never seen an HTC ad in Canada, so I do not think HTC invest a lot of money in Ads like Samsung, and Apple. I did read a few blog post on the HTC M9, and seen 1-2 videos for it on YouTube, and other video sites.
 
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