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IIRC the android revenue is rolled into the x-box revenue under some nebulous category when they break out revenue in their earning (forget the exact title). Th
by skizm 8y ago
IIRC the android revenue is rolled into the x-box revenue under some nebulous category when they break out revenue in their earning (forget the exact title). This hides the massive losses they are taking on x-box and all things x-box related. The android revenue is almost pure profit and nearly $2B annually. (they make this money by licencing patents to phone makers that use android such as HTC and Samsung)
- twoheadedboy 8y agoDo you have any sources or related info about this? That's super interesting.
- vijayagrawal18 8y agoLooks like "new" Microsoft is not aggressively going after that pie. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-billions-android-patent-royalties-141047213.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-b...
- rasz 8y agoArent most of those patents pure junk? Afair the only valid patent in there was something to do with FAT long filenames , and that one was killed with Linus help back in 2013.
- Ruxbin1986 8y agoI can't recall but I think many of them were User Interface related and rather specific. Not like the Apple claim of "Rounded Rectangles" but I will admit that it did appear even at face value that both Apple and Microsoft had a strong case against HTC, Samsung, etc. But I guess one of these makes better headlines for clickbait. YMMV.