Thursday, May 09, 2013

Microsoft's Android profit: $3.4B

Microsoft's most profitable mobile operating system: Android | ZDNet

"Microsoft has had trouble getting people to use its Windows Phone operating systems, however, it might make as much as $3.4 billion on Android phones.
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Where do these profits come from? Patent licenses.
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Today, only Motorola Mobility, a division of Google and Huawei, remains free of the Microsoft-Android intellectual-property (IP) tax.
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