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Remember that MS makes money off Android phones. Purportedly. I engaged in a debate on here before which involved trying to find the supposedly enormous sums o
by corresation 13y ago
Remember that MS makes money off Android phones.
Purportedly. I engaged in a debate on here before which involved trying to find the supposedly enormous sums of money that Microsoft makes from Android in their quarterly financial statements. At best it has to amount to what would be chump change to a company like Microsoft.
Instead we hear about supposed agreements where vendors who all happen to also be Windows Phone makers pay some unknown sum to Microsoft, which for all we know is used towards their WP licensing.
If Nokia released Android phones it would been devastating to Microsoft's mobile platform. It would have ruined it.
- throwawaykf02 13y agoI think people dug into their latest earnings and made a case that MS did make a few hundred mil on Android phone licenses. But you're right: it's chump change to MS, and Nokia putting out even a single Android phone would have been a huge blow to MS.
- cpayne 13y agoI think this is where the message gets mixed. It's not about how much Microsoft makes, its that apparently Microsoft makes more from Android than Windows phone[1]. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/android/microsoft-makes-more-android-windows-smartphones-707 http://www.infoworld.com/t/android/microsoft-makes-more-andr...