Although Android is far superior to the sales of Windows 7 Phone, but still, Microsoft pocketed money from each sale of Android. This is because Android uses some of the patents owned by Microsoft. To this HTC has to pay Microsoft $ 5 for every Android smartphone they sell. Now, Microsoft wants $ 15 from each of Samsung devices are successfully sold. Microsoft set a higher price on the Samsung because it is considered as the best selling Android vendor.
Until now, Samsung's latest product, Samsung S Galaxy II seems to have sold 3 million units. Try multiplied by $ 15-per smartphone, then Microsoft is getting $ 45 million just from a Samsung Android product. Samsung certainly do not want to accept their fate just like that, this time they bid price of $ 10-per smartphone sales.
Patent rights are sensitive issues in the mobile device industry. At first, in 2010, Microsoft announced a lawsuit against Motorola, stated that the Android mobile device violated nine patents owned by Microsoft. Then it spread to the demands of various Android smartphone manufacturers. Not wishing to prolong the problem, HTC intends to pay royalties for the patents owned by Microsoft. Samsung following the initiative in paying royalties HTC
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