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Samsung does not want to pay Microsoft royalties for Android as part of 2011 deal, citing anti-trust issues

article published on 1 November, 2014

In 2011, Samsung and Microsoft signed a licensing deal in which the South Korean giant agreed to collaborate on new Windows Phone products for a discount on the amount it would have to pay Microsoft for Android phone sales. Last year, with Samsung selling over 300 million devices, those royalties topped $1 billion but allegedly Samsung was late with the payment and Microsoft sued them ... [ read the full article ]

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megadunderhead
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_ 		1. November 2014 @ 23:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
?????????????

Wait a minute what the you collect on android patents patents that are held by google how the heck does that work???

Android is google not microsoft


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ChiknLitl
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_ 		2. November 2014 @ 09:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by megadunderhead:
 ?????????????

Wait a minute what the you collect on android patents patents that are held by google how the heck does that work???

Android is google not microsoft


MS has been collecting money almost from the start. How long have you been here at AD and have not read anything about this?? $5-10 per device is roughly the going rate.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.c...android_patents

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.c..._acer_viewsonic

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.c...ver_patent_riff
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hearme0
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_ 		4. November 2014 @ 15:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's an Antitrust thing and totally outta whack! There is NO WAY to spin this as a fair business deal.

It's simply intended to balance out the loss that MS will incur for having joined the mobile phone market (w/a GOOD OS) way too late if you ask me.

US gov't at its finest..........NOT
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pmshah
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_ 		5. November 2014 @ 22:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It is still not too late for the whole Android system to switch base to BSD. Could do away with royalty business altogether. Then it can really kick ass!
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wilkes
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_ 		6. November 2014 @ 03:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Why is it that every time anybody accuses Microsoft of anything at all, it's time to pile onto them and make them the villain of the piece again? Samsung are hardly a small independent, and agreed the deal - how do they think anyone will ever trust their word ever again if they decide to renege on an agreement? The furor that would ensue if MS reneged on a legal deal would be something to behold.
And then there is Apple. Everything they do is hailed as some smart idea or some neat thing that will stick it to MS. Yet they abuse their position dreadfully, and nothing is ever done about that.
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