Source : ElectronisaThe Smartphone HTC Touch is a success too. While being less technologically advanced than the iPhone, and running Windows Mobile, it remains an attractive model, and HTC announced to have already shipped 800,000 units.
Its success might also be linked to the long gap between the announcement of Apple iPhone and its availability. In addition, the HTC Touch is not exclusively linked to a carrier, so its potential customer reservoir is larger than for the iPhone.
This new business model for advanced mobile phones that Apple is trying to develop/impose to carriers might be in the future the main breakdown for iPhone development. Apple might be willing to reproduce with the iPhone the same ecosystem than between iPod and iTunes. However, Cupertino created the
