> Google threw the gauntlet when it took a billion dollar investment into a mobile OS and gave it away for free. Seeing as how MS sold Xbox consoles at a loss

> Google threw the gauntlet when it took a billion dollar investment into a mobile OS and gave it away for free. Seeing as how MS sold Xbox consoles at a loss so they could sell expensive games, I doubt MS has much of a leg to stand on with this claim. Apparently, the Xbox One is the first Xbox to be sold at a profit or break-even from day one; this was such a bold move that Forbes devoted a whole column to it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/06/microsoft-upends-the-economics-of-games-machines-with-xbox-one/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/06/microsoft... (Other articles indicate that most consoles are sold at a loss. I'm picking on MS because it was mentioned in the article as a party to this suit.)