HTC's president of North Asia, Jack Tong, probably won't be getting a card from Samsung during this year's holiday season. Tong accused the Korean manufacturer of using its position as an HTC supplier to gain a competitive advantage over the Taiwan based firm. Tong says that this took place when Samsung was supplying AMOLED panels to HTC for the HTC Desire, which was launched in the first quarter of 2010.
The HTC Desire
In Taipei for a local forum on mobile broadband, Tong went on to say that once the device was "welcomed" by both customers and carriers, Samsung turned the spigot off and stopped supplying the panels to HTC. The executive said that the handset manufacturer learned a lesson from that. "We found that key component supply can be used as a competitive weapon," he said. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said at the beginning of the year, that it hoped to help local companies develop their own supply chain to avoid situations like this one.
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