I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but supposedly MS gets $5 for every Android HTC sells... http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-androi

I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but supposedly MS gets $5 for every Android HTC sells... http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-android-phone-2011-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-andr... Site here says that in 2010 HTC was selling Androids at a rate of around 18 million per year... http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2010/05/27/deciphering-androids-smartphone-sales-figures.aspx http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2010/05/27/deciphe... So that means around $90 million in income for MS, for which they did basically nothing, pure profit. On the other hand, $90 million just isn't that much when you're MS. Even if they had a similar deal for all Androids (which they don't AFAIK), it would still only be $180 million, less whatever they gave up to get those deals done. So MS does seem to be making money on Android, but the amount is clearly dwarfed by their other businesses.