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In and interview with the Wall Street Journal, HTC CEO Peter Chou said that the company wasn’t concerned about Google’s potential withdrawal from China:
“We would just adopt other search engines instead of Google’s in our Android models” for China, he said.
Motorola took a similar decision a few weeks ago when they announced that Microsoft’s Bing will be the default search engine on their Android handsets sold in China.
Peter Chou also talked about HTC’s current US growth (5.5M HTC handsets were shipping in the US in 2009):
“It looks like the growth in the U.S market is faster than others,” […]“They [Verizon and T-Mobile] started treating us as their first-tier suppliers last year,”
And here’s a little nugget that shows you that the WSJ just doesn’t have a clue:
HTC launched its first touch-screen smartphone in June 2007,
Sad isn’t it? HTC’s first smartphone (O2 XDA) launched in June 2002.
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