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HTC replaces their Chief Financial Officer, the one responsible for the Beats deal

Categories: Android, HTC
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 at 1:56 AM
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Winston Yung, an Americanized name if we ever heard one, is no longer HTC’s Chief Financial Officer. He’s been replaced by Chia-Lin Chang, who is not only a former Motorola engineer, but also a former Goldman Sachs partner. So why did HTC do this? These next few weeks are going to be absolutely vital for the company’s future. They have to prove to the world that the One X and One S are worth buying. They have to prove that people should still pay attention to HTC after Samsung announces the Galaxy S III in less than three weeks. They have to prove … a hell of a lot. According to Reuters, who quotes Tom Tang, a vice president at Masterlink Investment Advisory in Taipei, he says:

“When a company changes its CFO, it often indicates that the company’s operations or financials have reached a bottleneck.”

What the hell does that mean? What exactly reached a bottleneck? Did HTC want to grow and Winston couldn’t figure out the math to make that happen? The market isn’t all too happy about Winston’s departure. HTC’s stock is down over 5%. But enough about that, what do we think about the news? We’re frankly delighted. This bozo was responsible for HTC’s $300 million deal with Beats Audio. What exactly did the Taiwanese handset vendor get for that amount of money? A hideous red logo and a software equalizer that does absolutely nothing but ups the bass levels of your music.

So what should HTC do in 2012 to make sure they stop bleeding money? Besides fire a lot of people, preferably those people who work on Sense, there’s nothing that really else that comes to mind. HTC is in Nokia’s situation. They buy components from someone else, they use someone else’s software, they slap everything together, put it in a box, and then sell it to you.

Is that model sustainable?

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V7LEJCXNP7MRDN5WZ2NMAEOHBA fewgoodmen

    I have prob 5 phones by HTC starting with my Kaiser to now the Rezound.  My best buy was the Droid Incredible (which I still have btw). My main issue with HTC phones nowadays are bland, underwhelming designs, buggy software releases and worse of all, super slow updates.  Why bother releasing hot new products like the Rezound with Gingerbread? That software was 18m old and still almost 6m after ICS, there’s still no date for phone updates.  Oh, did I mention carriers were asking $300 for new phones with old softwares and no updates in sight?  

    Well anyway, my love affair with HTC is officially over.  

  • http://www.cfocentre.com.au/ “cfo signals

    I agree with you  as a CFO is a backbone of the company.Now a days the company expectations are wider it is just not only profit and sell but to reach at a new height.Now it is upon the CFO how he proves himself.