Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
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Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#2So, if Google makes money with Apple stuff (iPad, iPhone with search, maps, etc), and Microsoft makes money with Android...
Let's close the circle! Let Apple make money with WP7! (C3 technologies for bing maps could do it...) And everyone will be happy forever! (Or not).
Seriously, Ballmer should send a really nice corporate gift to Brin, Page and Schmidt, with a card: "Thanx pals!"
Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#3So, if Google makes money with Apple stuff (iPad, iPhone with search, maps, etc), and Microsoft makes money with Android... Let's close the circle! Let Apple make money with WP7! (C3 technologies for bing maps could do it...) And everyone will be happy forever! (Or not). Seriously, Ballmer should send a really nice corporate gift to Brin, Page and Schmidt, with a card: "Thanx pals!"
Google not only makes money off of Apple products but pretty much any product from where one can search. That includes all the android devices as well. Which makes you wonder why are they pushing android at all. People are used to using Google so no matter what OS, they are going to use it anyways Why spend billions of dollars developing and defending it?
Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#4It's too bad that even though most of those patents could be invalidated in Court, these companies fell one by one and started paying Microsoft royalties for all the claimed infringements.
I'm pretty sure most of the big companies like Samsung and LG didn't even agree to do this for nothing, though. They most likely got a discount deal for Windows licenses, or some similar deal. Both of them make Windows laptops.
Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#5So Microsoft unleashes its lawyers on Android OEM's and there's nothing Google and all those OEM's could do about it?
Wasnt Google supposed to 'defend' OEM's, specially after Motorola deal?
And, on a totally unrelated note, Microsoft does all the bad practices to gain profit; and it has an XBox with a camera connected to internet with closed source software which updates itself, on millions of houses across the globe? And we're supposed to trust them because...?
Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#6So, if Google makes money with Apple stuff (iPad, iPhone with search, maps, etc), and Microsoft makes money with Android... Let's close the circle! Let Apple make money with WP7! (C3 technologies for bing maps could do it...) And everyone will be happy forever! (Or not). Seriously, Ballmer should send a really nice corporate gift to Brin, Page and Schmidt, with a card: "Thanx pals!"
Google not only makes money off of Apple products but pretty much any product from where one can search. That includes all the android devices as well. Which makes you wonder why are they pushing android at all. People are used to using Google so no matter what OS, they are going to use it anyways Why spend billions of dollars developing and defending it?
I think that having their own mobile os lets them keep the status quo. If apple changed google for bing, even when a lot of people would change back to google search, i bet that a big percentage would simply use the default (think about ie8). Also, it lets them refine and make more relevant their search results, collect geodata for other services (transit for example), expand their services, etc. its not like th
ey are mother theresa. And above all, it helps them expand their core business, letting every device maker use a smartphone os that doesnt suck, all with google as default search engine.
Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#7So Microsoft unleashes its lawyers on Android OEM's and there's nothing Google and all those OEM's could do about it? Wasnt Google supposed to 'defend' OEM's, specially after Motorola deal? And, on a totally unrelated note, Microsoft does all the bad practices to gain profit; and it has an XBox with a camera connected to internet with closed source software which updates itself, on millions of houses across the globe…
"and it has an XBox with a camera connected to internet with closed source software which updates itself, on millions of houses across the globe" :)
Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#8So, if Google makes money with Apple stuff (iPad, iPhone with search, maps, etc), and Microsoft makes money with Android... Let's close the circle! Let Apple make money with WP7! (C3 technologies for bing maps could do it...) And everyone will be happy forever! (Or not). Seriously, Ballmer should send a really nice corporate gift to Brin, Page and Schmidt, with a card: "Thanx pals!"
Google not only makes money off of Apple products but pretty much any product from where one can search. That includes all the android devices as well. Which makes you wonder why are they pushing android at all. People are used to using Google so no matter what OS, they are going to use it anyways Why spend billions of dollars developing and defending it?
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Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#9It's too bad that even though most of those patents could be invalidated in Court, these companies fell one by one and started paying Microsoft royalties for all the claimed infringements. I'm pretty sure most of the big companies like Samsung and LG didn't even agree to do this for nothing, though. They most likely got a discount deal for Windows licenses, or some similar deal. Both of them make Windows laptops.
That does not make sense to me. If they get a discount for Windows licenses they would have bought anyway, then they are not paying anything at all effectively.
Re: Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
#10It's too bad that even though most of those patents could be invalidated in Court, these companies fell one by one and started paying Microsoft royalties for all the claimed infringements. I'm pretty sure most of the big companies like Samsung and LG didn't even agree to do this for nothing, though. They most likely got a discount deal for Windows licenses, or some similar deal. Both of them make Windows laptops.
You wonder if some lawyer would take this up and make Microsoft pay back the royalties paid in addition to any damages. Would be a hefty chunck of change.