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HTC disagrees with Apple suit, legal battle in the offing |
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HTC Corporation has said that it disagrees with Apple's legal action, and restated its commitment to creating innovative smartphones based on consumer choice. The company recapped its road map since its founding in 1997, saying that it has always worked towards introducing smartphones in partnership with US mobile operators.  Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation said, "HTC disagrees with Apple's actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible." Chou said that since its founding, HTC focused on creating cutting-edge innovations to deliver unique value for people looking for a smartphone. He said that design for the XDA and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition, HTC's first touch-screen smartphones, began in 1999, with the phones being shipped in 2002. “More than 50 additional HTC smartphone models shipping since then," Chou said. The statement outlines HTC's presence in the smart phone market, which preceded Apple's iconic iPhone. Apple, in its statement declaring the lawsuit had said that it “reinvented” the mobile phone in 2007 with the iPhone and then “did it again in 2008 with its pioneering App Store. HTC's statement seeks to remind people that they were around making smart phones much before Apple decided to 'reinvent' it. HTC's timeline of smart phone evolution included its first Windows PDA in 1998, first Windows Phone in June 2002, first 3G CDMA EVDO smartphone in October 2005, first gesture-based smartphone in June 2007, first Google Android smartphone in October 2008, and first 4G WIMAX smartphone in November 2008. Year 2009 saw the launch of its branded user experience, HTC Sense, which puts people “at the center by making phones work in a more simple and natural way”, which HTC says was fundamentally based on “listening and observing how people live and communicate.” |
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