Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than from Windows Phone

Re:Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than fro... by sjs on Friday May 27, 2011 @11:39AM (#2591822)

You don't get to start a paragraph with "So" when the previous sentence began with "Estimating that". That is nothing to base a conclusion on.

Regardless it's funny and sad to see MS acting like a common patent troll. Sure they need revenue but they have resources to produce stuff.

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Re:Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than fro... by tzs on Friday May 27, 2011 @12:07PM (#2591931)

What's funny is to see someone in their first paragraph nit-pick the use of a single word ("so") from the article, and then in their second paragraph go on to grossly misuse a phrase ("patent troll").

It is not patent trolling to ask for licensing for patents that you developed and that cover technology that you use. It is in fact how patents were designed and meant to be used.

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Re:Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than fro... by sjs on Friday May 27, 2011 @01:17PM (#2592216)

Touché, you're right. MS is amicably working out license deals, very unlike a patent troll.

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Re:Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than fro... by KeyBoardG on Friday May 27, 2011 @12:09PM (#2591942)

It would be foolish to ignore potential income. Remember they have people to pay, they're not one being with one attitude of patent trolling.

There is a big trend of people from Microsoft starting sentences with 'So'. You can see it on a lot of interviews on Channel9.

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Re:Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than fro... by carbonx on Friday May 27, 2011 @01:15PM (#2592203)

You make a good point. The guy "estimates" $15 per license and then uses this estimate to draw conclusions, without providing any basis for his estimate. It seems to amount to nothing more than speculation.

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