HTC has ditched efforts on introducing full-sized tablets with Microsoft's Windows RT operating system.
According to Bloomberg, sources claimed lack of demand for the Windows RT platform as one reasons HTC abandoned its plans. People close to the matter noted HTC's decision also stemmed from the device's manufacturing cost being too expensive, reportedly.
It isn't all bad news for Microsoft as HTC will release a seven-inch tablet with the Windows RT platform, which is a spinoff of the Windows 8 operating system, later this year.
"HTC is coping with a sales slide, market share declines and management turnover, prompting the company to be more selective with the products it brings to market," reported Bloomberg's Dina Bass.
According to the International Data Corporation, or IDC, devices utilizing the Windows RT operating system have been accounted for in 200,000 tablets.
"We don't comment on rumors or speculation," HTC wrote in a response to Bloomberg News. Microsoft has also declined to comment.
The report is similar to Samsung's reason to cease the Windows RT Ativ Tab in Germany last March. The tablet, according to analysts, had a price tag considered too high for customers. Priced at €600, or $780 when converted to the U.S. dollar, people might as well buy the 32GB Apple iPad which is available for $429.
The Windows RT launched in October 2012.
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