Former HTC CEO Peter Chou has left the company

After a decade at the helm of HTC, Peter Chou was last year suddenly ousted from his post as CEO in the wake of negative early reviews of the company’s 2015 smartphone flagship, the One M9. In my preview of the phone, I described it as a beautiful disappointment, and others agreed that it carried on HTC’s fine design tradition along with its established weaknesses around imaging. Company co-founder Cher Wang stepped into the CEO role, replacing Chou, who shifted over to running the H