It has been a while, since ARCHOS communicated about their product strategy.
In a financial press document released today, ARCHOS is publishing their financial results for 2012, announcing a new CEO nomination and giving their perspectives for 2013.

Financial results

According to the press release ARCHOS revenue for year 2012 set at 154,9 M€ , a 10% drop compared to 2011. On the whole year in Europe, according to GfK Panel Market ^[1] jan12-dec 12 Europe 7, ARCHOS keeps a market share of 8% in volume on the sub-EUR 400 tablet and stays in third position after Apple and Samsung.

The financial publication is available only in French language at the moment, here is a summary of the numbers:

In terms of geographical distribution when we compare 2012 revenues to previous year, there is a small regression in Europe in 2012, while sales in Asia are increasing by more than 40% and declined in the US by about the same percentage.

Profit wise, 2012 financial results show wide difficulties on the income figure, with a reported Net consolidated income of -38,7 M€, compared to year 2011 where ARCHOS was profitable and made…