The founder, Anne Patterson, launched the
company to resume the production of a popular solar oven from the humanitarian organization Solar Oven Society (SOS), which had previously supplied more
than 20,000 of its clean cooking
solutions to people
in Haiti, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and
other locations
in the developing
world before its funding ran out
in 2013.
The outside
world in fact, far from standing still, started offering a myriad of different
solutions to consumers, from manufacturers like Samsung and LG — already far bigger
than the Taiwanese OEM — switching to more premium materials — and thus bridging that crucial gap — to
other Chinese
companies offering cheaper and likewise «premium», metal - made phones (like Huawei), essentially leaving HTC
in the dust.