Microsoft is a sore winner: pokes fun at Google over LG licensing deal
If you bought an Android smartphone or tablet in the last six months, odds are surprisingly good that you paid a considerable chunk of the purchase price to Microsoft. The dinosaur of the software world has successfully sued and/or negotiated with most of the major Android OEMs, including Samsung, HTC, and lately LG. Microsoft claims that over 70% of the Android hardware sold in the US includes licensing fees paid to the company a disturbing statistic for an open-source operating system.
Microsoft hasn’t disclosed how much it’s making off of its Android-related patents, though estimates put the amount in hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Telli…
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Microsoft is a sore winner: pokes fun at Google over LG licensing deal
Michael Crider – androidcommunity.com
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