Adinnieken said:
Those are not reports, it's speculation. Even Mary-Jo Foley finds the suggestion of $10-$15 ridiculous, considering that we know how much Microsoft was awarded in the HTC case, and we know how many mobiles HTC sold. Which puts the licenses at $5.00. What company, in their right mind, would continue to use Android if Microsoft was licensing their patents to you at $10-$15, and then you have Apple also suing licensing their patents to you at whatever price they're charging, when you could easily license Windows Phone 7 for $15. There would be no financial benefit to licensing Android if it exceeds the cost of licensing Windows Phone 7. Not to mention, any lawyer worth their weight in lawyering, would have used the HTC ruling as precedent for damages against Samsung. So either Samsung has lawyers that don't know what they're doing, or all the "reports" you mention (really it's one rumor repeated multiple times) aren't factual. I'm sorry, but when did logic get thrown out in analysis of a situation and hyperbole replaced it as rational and sound reasoning? Think. |
Well actually the rumours suggested $10-15 as the sum asked by MS, but except that HTC case you cited, no other settling has been disclosed, so they could be too around $5. I think too $15 could be excessive, considering the only final deal we know, but as when you bargain you start asking for more than the minimum you want and offering less than the maximum you're ready to give, we at least know MS must have initiallly asked for an unknown amount more than $5 per phone.
