HTC’s Jack Tong went on record and recalled his company’s troubles following the launch of the HTC Desire.

Jack Tong that made a huge accusation. Tong said that the Desire initially launched with an AMOLED display supplied by Samsung. After the phone started gaining momentum and sales picked up, the executive says Samsung suddenly couldn’t supply it with panels anymore.

Tong said “We found that key component supply can be used as a competitive weapon,” This meant HTC ended up having to redesign the Desire and relaunch it without the Samsung-built AMOLED displays.

I am sure there is another side to this story, but in the ruthless big bad world, nothing would surprise me.

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