One would think that pretty much every company that puts out even remotely decent products in the market has some sort of patent loyalties to pay? I mean there

One would think that pretty much every company that puts out even remotely decent products in the market has some sort of patent loyalties to pay? I mean there is just no way for one entity to own all IP shipping in moderately complex goods. In this case may be HTC pays Microsoft AND Google (for shipping Google properties and accessing their services) - but at the end of the day Android enables them to sell in volumes and the $5 they pay to Microsoft would still be substantially less than if they were to license a full OS and application stack from Microsoft. So win-win I think.