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| Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 11:44 AM EDT |
| Wepolls Note that the
usual few M$ paid shills are making all the usual comments.... I expect
that other similar sites will be around, where we can express our views. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: rcsteiner on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
The purpose of business is to make money, not to create a useful product.
Microsoft has taken that to rather lofty heights.
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 04:31 PM EDT |
According to the tech consultancy Asymco, Microsoft is likely to
earn several times more money through its Android patents than it does from
licences for its own Windows Phone system.
Given the amount
Microsoft gets from Windows Phone licenses, "several times more" is probably a
million at most. I keep thinking of the extortion scene in Austin Powers
where the targets collapse with laughter at the paltry sum
demanded.
JMO/YMMV [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 04:40 PM EDT |
Thanks for the extra links, I thought you might have been on to something, but
there's a lot of loose threads to follow there
Microsoft gets $5
for every HTC phonerunning Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard¶,
who released a big report on Microsoft this morning.
Businessinsider.com, check chart at bottom,
unfortunately two years out
of catchup.
Is Microsoft getting $5 per HTC Android handset sold?
The Grauniad can't get much closer to real numbers than we can, but observes the
nips going in
deeper, and that Android licensing revenue far exceeds WinPho
licensing revenue.
guardian.co.uk
Microsoft plans to boost the
licensing fees of its software for the Android mobile phones of HTC to
US$7.5-US$12.5 per unit, up from existing US$5,
according to a
report of Citibank Securities¶. cens.com
[Taiwan]
[MS] is asking for between $7.50 and $12.50 in
negotiations with makers of other Android devices,
geekwire.com
as per the patent law, Microsoft Corporation cannot
“double-dip”by charging both a product’s designer and its manufacturer a full
royalty charge.
valuewalk.com
The agreement comes just over
two years after Microsoft announced it had filed legal action against the Asian
firm in the US courts.
BBC
So Foxconn has caved rather than enter the farce of the US
court system. Meanwhile where is the White Knight Google with its Flaming Sword?
Or do they
see hapless punters coughing up the MS tax as trivial in the wave of
popularity of Android? Seems odd that they continue to support the existence of
a
blood sucking parasite on their ecosystem. Is this a hint of their own future
behaviour?
¶ A bullish note from Citi's Walter Pritchard is helping
Microsoft (MSFT +1.9%) add to yesterday's big gains,
is being
widely quoted by the financial market blogs. Does Walter have inside info that
the tech press doesn't? Or is he just margin scraping?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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