> I always thought HTC and Samsung were exempt from these royalties by releasing their own Windows Phones Samsung definitely pay a per-device royalty to Micros

> I always thought HTC and Samsung were exempt from these royalties by releasing their own Windows Phones Samsung definitely pay a per-device royalty to Microsoft for Android devices, the latter even put a press release out about it a few years ago: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2011/sep11/09-28samsungpr.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2011/sep11/09-28sa...