Every time that HTC sells some smartphone running Google Android, Steve Ballmer hears the clink of coins in the bank account from Microsoft. The Taiwanese manufacturer pays a fee of DM per unit sold. According to the calculations of a bank analyst at Citi, this value is currently $ 5.
Amazingly, Microsoft is the only company for which the HTC pays a fee to install Android on new smartphones. Google? No, the revenue from the Google Android mobile advertising is due not to the licensing of its intellectual property. Currently, HTC has more than 10 handsets running Android in the U.S. market.
HTC and Microsoft have reached an agreement after a dispute involving patents, which came to this value of $ 5 per unit. In other disputes with other companies (or you think that MS would be satisfied with a manufacturer?), the Redmond company calls between $ 7.50 and $ 12.50. On this view, until the HTC did well.
Survey of Asymco says that HTC has sold about 30 million phones with Android. That is, already owes $ 150 million for the arch-enemy of Android.
The main agreement is that it causes the enhancement in the final cost of Since the smartphone becomes more expensive, Microsoft itself gains competitive advantage for your Windows Phone 7. This is the fee for using it is less than the $ 15 that they say, are charged license.
