I do not know the licensing fee involved with WP7, but demanding higher royalties on Android devices might be a way to push vendors into switching. Also, 5-15$

I do not know the licensing fee involved with WP7, but demanding higher royalties on Android devices might be a way to push vendors into switching. Also, 5-15$ is significant when comparing it with the manufacturing costs of the device (the iPhone 4S CPU is estimated at 15$ by iSuppli (http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/MarketWatch/Pages/For-the-iPhone-4S,-It%E2%80%99s-What%E2%80%99s-on-the-Inside-that-Counts.aspx) http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/MarketWatch/Pages/For-the-i...).