Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 9, 2013 @02:14AM from the profit-through-judo dept.

puddingebola writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a piece of commentary discussing Microsoft's profit from their patent claims on Android. From the article, 'To some, Windows 8 is a marketplace failure. But its flop has been nothing compared to Microsoft's problems in getting anyone to use its Windows Phone operating systems. You don't need to worry about Microsoft's bottom line though. Thanks to its Android patent agreements, Microsoft may be making as much as $8 per Android device. This could give Microsoft as much as $3.4 billion in 2013 from Android sales.'"

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Re:WP8 Isn't all bad by Eirenarch · 2013-05-09 02:48 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I assume you are a geek. You might want to check my visual brainfuck interpreter (called BF for WP). It sure beats the ones I've seen on Android. Then you may claim to your Android geek friends that WP has better apps because it has better brainfuck interpreters :)
Yes, this post is shameless self-promotion... of WP app... on /. I am doing one hell of a marketing.