HTC has never wanted to compete with Apple

Speaking at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle, acting president of the American division of HTC Fitcher Martin (Martin Fichter) expressed his views on several pressing issues of today. One of them concerned the popularity of iPhone.

According to the head, HTC has never sought to create a so-called "killer iPhone". The company has always focused on that audience, which is not interesting products Apple. "I've heard the term" killer iPhone "as many times within the company and outside it. When I hear it on the internal meetings, I say, 'Look, there's a market for the iPhone". But I do not think that we will "kill "iPhone, because this unit is focused on a number of people with a certain taste. We're doing something else," - said the president.

As an example, Martin led video service Fitcher HTC Watch, which uses different methods of film distribution, compared with iTunes. Another original feature is the interface of HTC Sense UI, added the head.

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HTC: iPhone is not Cool

HTC's U.S. boss does not seem that the iPhone is cool.

Apple has had great success with the iPhone and it has, according to HTC's U.S. president Martin Fichter meant that the iPhone has lost the cool factor.

The reason for this is that young people are not iPhone users because "dad has one."

Fichter basing his opinions on a limited basis based on a visit to his daughter's college, Fichter was noted that young people had smartphones from countries including Samsung and HTC, but not from Apple.

"And None af dem har et iPhone fordi de selv customs me: 'My dad kill an iPhone,'" the executive said. "There's an interesting thing that's going on in the market. The iPhone Becomes a Little Less Cool Than it was. They Were Carrying HTCs. They Were Carrying Samsung. They Were even Carrying nogle Chinese Manufacturer's devices, "says Fichter.

Fichter somewhat unscientific survey backed by several studies actually show that Android users are slightly younger than iPhone users, which may also be linked with the relatively high price of the iPhone.

Via GeekWire .

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