While leading Chinese manufacturers in the face of Huawei, Oppo and Vivo increasing delivery and planning in 2017 to sell a total of 500 million smartphones , Taiwanese companies can not achieve its 2016 goals. We are talking about HTC, Acer and Asus.
According to the publication DigiTimes citing industry sources, supply Asus smartphone, HTC and Acer will be lower by the end of 2016 than originally planned. So, Asus this year will sell a total of about 20 million smartphones, while originally it had planned to deliver at least 25 million smartphones. This is due to lower than expected sales Asus smartphones in China, US and Europe, as well as delays in the supply of smartphones series ZenFone 3. And in 2017 Asus will face strong competition in the mobile market in India.
HTC company , which put in 2015 up to 18 million smartphones this year, sold a total of 10-12 million smartphones, thus giving way to the title of the leading Taiwanese manufacturer Asus' smartphone. In 2016 sales of HTC smartphones fell in China, US and Europe. And now, HTC share of the global mobile market continues to decline.
As for the Acer, it is planned to put the entire 2016 about 10 million smart phones, but it will be able to fulfill the plan only half. And next year, according to sources, Acer smartphone market is also waiting big difficulty.