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It's not little. Licensing is mostly profit, while "hardware" is mostly cost. Remember for the first two or three Surface tries, Microsoft was losing money eve
by higherpurpose 12y ago
It's not little. Licensing is mostly profit, while "hardware" is mostly cost.
Remember for the first two or three Surface tries, Microsoft was losing money even if it had a "billion in revenue" from them.
- computer 12y agoYou should probably consider the investment in R&D to invent the licensed IP; it's probably less profitable once you include all of the R&D Microsoft has ever done.
- dredmorbius 12y agoLittle from who's perspective? For Microsoft, it's little -- and most of Microsoft's revenues are from licensing, though principally of software. For Samsung, with $307 billion in income and $30 billion in profits, it's still a relatively small share of costs. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-12/samsung-invests-in-drugs-after-outselling-apple-s-iphone.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-12/samsung-invests-in-...