Foreword
"if there are only two mobile phone manufacturers in the future, htc must be one of them!"
It is not someone else, it is the daughter of the “taiwan plastic king”, who defeated guo tai chong, the first woman in taiwan, and wang xuehong, who is also known as the “women jobs”。
At the top, even apples publicly acknowledged the opponent, saying htc was their biggest rival。
It is a pity that the king, who was dubbed the king of andre's cell phone, disappeared shortly after his arrival at the peak, and that wang xue-hong himself broke the myth of the outside world that he boasted of his "living daughter as wang xue-hong"
The tears of the times
In july 2024, when it was said that the last htc store in taiwan was closed and replaced by a water-fried bunt, a “era tears” seemed to awaken the memory of htc in the consumer's mind, the official htc responded that it was just a distribution shop under our company's banner, not a store。
In fact, there's another meaning: the htc's specialty store was closed down long ago... Even before the tears of the age of the internet。
An official query on htc u24 pro's price, driven by curiosity, was set at 7 gen 3 4600 mah with a memory of 12 + 256 gb. It's 4,200 yuan
The cell phone at the same price is much better than the htc, and it's much cheaper than the htc. I don't know what it's worth, but think about it, it's because htc's high, isn't it
Despite the fact that in 1988 wang xuehong, the three daughters of wang qingqing, taiwan's plastic king, was a regular employee of the popular computer company, his graduation from the economics master's degree at berkeley, california, united states, cannot be concealed。
At the time, wang xuehong had a great interest in the it industry, but when she proposed to start her own business, she was strongly opposed by her father, who had no choice but to take out a mortgage from her mother's house in the united states and to pay $170,000 for the establishment of a company that had been in existence for less than two years。
The x86 chip design company, located in benmont, california, united states of america, is notoriously on the verge of collapse many times, with little respect for it, yet wang xue-hong does not think so, even though she is not doing business for several years after taking over from wesing, but rather does not want to give up, thinking of an old man, chen wenqi。
This man, who has been working in intel for many years, has, without hesitation, taken the olive branch from wang snowflake, after discovering that taiwan is gradually becoming the 70% of the world’s main production base for the pc, and eventually, not only brings the company weschen back to life, but also relocates its headquarters to taipei。
As chen wen qi had predicted, when weising came to taiwan, there was not only a large number of business initiatives, but also sufficient preparation to respond to the dramatic upgrading of the chip team technology, and even more surprising to wang xuehong, who in 1997 was overwhelmingly known as taiwan's first-largest chip group, and was also among the top 10 ic design companies in the world
I've never seen anything like this
The peak of his career, combined with the reputation of his father, wang qing, as the "god of operation" , could be said to have been the best in the time, and many of the media had written such praises as "breeding as snow"。
On the other hand, between the morning and the evening of chen wen qi, wang xue-hong became a trusted partner, eventually turning pure friendship into love, married in 2003, which could be described as a mixed career。
It is worth mentioning that in 1997, wang xue-hong joined eight engineers to create hong dynasty, the predecessor of what we have always called htc, whose business is no different from that of fuscon today, mainly to provide alternative services to brands such as dale and hewlett packard。
The premise of this is that wang xue-hong saw early on that the future would be the market for smart phones, and that htc had a department specializing in the development of smart phones, and that the ipaq tablets that they had developed in 2000 were already on fire in europe and america。
By 2002, this daring businesswoman met with microsoft bill gates, who wanted to launch a mobile phone that could carry microsoft, and who wanted to build his own brand-name cell phone, both of which joined forces to launch the first dopta smartphone with microsoft smartphone。
This time, however, the queen snow red, who had always been in business, thought that bill gates was a noble man of her own, but the boom in working with microsoft for four years had not been anticipated until 2008, when hongda had officially changed his name to htc。
When wang xuehong once said such an impressive but unsatisfied phrase, she stated that as long as wesheng made money, hong da would not shut down electricity, and for a decade she had been bold enough to resist everyone's unsatisfied pressure to reap the price of htc's shares。
At the height of the momentum, htc’s market value was once higher than that of its hottest cell phone giant, nokia, and it was precisely because of this achievement that wang xuehong became more interested in the smartphone market and more determined to follow the road。
After reaching an alarming 43 million htc smartphones in 2011, it became known that the htc had outperformed apple and samsung in the united states market that year, accounting for 15 per cent of the global market。
In the year when htc delivered 43 million goods, and it was brought to court by apples for patent infringement, apple’s simple claim was that the united states should henceforth ban the sale of htc phones。
After all, htc is a surrogate factory with a limited core of technology in his hand, unable to compete with american technology giants like apples, and finally, wang snow had to accept that htc had to leave the us market。
♪ fall down the altar ♪
However, this was only the beginning, and soon, prominent brand companies such as samsung, microsoft and nokia began to follow apple's example and sue the court for patent disputes between htc and them。
In the final analysis, is it true that htc has no sense of precaution, no one else knows it, that you do not have sufficient reserves of patents, and that you have no detailed examination of overseas markets, and you don't know what you're thinking
From 2011 to 2013, htc has been in the grip of two years, with a patent fee of us$ 50-70 for selling a htc mobile phone in the us and europe markets, affecting the htc market share as well as the top 10 from the original second global market ...
As they say, the european-american market has its own place. Since the us-european market has overstretched the htc, the wang snow red can target the mainland. After all, the consumption volume here is only larger than the us-european, and not less. Unfortunately, the htc’s desire to re-enter the european-american market seriously underestimates the continent’s potential。
Moreover, when htc’s high-end mobile phone m7 gave the highest price of $4545 at the time, this high arrogance also left the htc totally marginalized from the continent until its final phase-out。
At the time, it was said that htc was like ham sausage, first-class ham sausage was given to eurome, second-class ham sausage was given to itself, the worst third-class ham sausage was given to the mainland, together with their increased slackening on the product and their lack of pride in marketing, and ultimately sold the shanghai manufacturing plant at a price of $630 million, and then sold the r & d team, including more than 2,000 employees, to google, along with some patents。
In may 2019, when the name htc was heard again, or had it shut down the mainland kyoto and skycat's flagship stores, and a generation of anzor emperors fell down on the altar, wang xuehong himself could not afford to remain in the vr domain with the money. Unfortunately, her third start-up was not as successful as she had imagined, and it was even more difficult to repeat the glory of the past。
Write to the end
Perhaps wang xuehong will never understand why she was eliminated from the market, and the answer is that her arrogance and prejudice led htc to lose its way, and eventually no longer.
