Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones

Re:Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartph... by ge0rg on Saturday January 14, 2012 @11:56AM (#3464575)

I do not know the licensing fee involved with WP7, but demanding higher royalties on Android devices might be a way to push vendors into switching.

Also, 5-15$ is significant when comparing it with the manufacturing costs of the device (the iPhone 4S CPU is estimated at 15$ by iSuppli (http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/MarketWatch/Pages/For-the-i...).

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Re:Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartph... by av500 on Sunday January 15, 2012 @04:09AM (#3466762)

Vendors have to make sure they build phones that they can sell, the phone being simply $15 cheaper won't do that. Apple sells more 4S than 4 and more 4 than 3GS, so it cannot be that the price is the only decision point

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