Microsoft's two-quarter patent charge to HTC amounted to $60 million

August 5 News, according to foreign Science and technology media BGR reported that, according to public information, Microsoft in the second quarter of this year, HTC paid the Android patent licensing fees can profit http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/3731.html " >6000 million dollars, about 3 times times the turnover of their Windows Phone series.

Asymco, analyst Horace Dediu, estimated in May this year that Microsoft's patent fee for the first quarter amounted to about 5 times times the sales of WP handsets in the quarter.

When it comes to the second quarter, Dediu said that Microsoft could earn $21 million for each 15-dollar WP operating system license fee, while each HTC phone would pay 5 dollars to Microsoft, and Microsoft could get 60 million dollars from its 12 million handsets sold by HTC. Dediu uses data from HTC's own sales figures and WP7 sales figures for third-party surveys.

However, the reason for this data to be further adjusted is that HTC's 12 million handsets include not only the Android system, but also HTC's production of WP7 handsets and the low-end handsets of the brew platform.

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