| Machiavellian said: Just making a guess but not sure if anyone really cares about MS android patents. Its not game related and its not like MS is hard up for money. Anyway, couldn't you just have created another thread for that info. |
not game related? well.. if i recall.. these patents possibly play an important part in xbox finances..
"According to Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund, however, Microsoft isn't quite over that hump just yet. It is, in fact, bleeding money at an alarming rate, but nobody's noticed because the losses are masked by Android licensing revenues.
"If we start with the overall traditional [Entertainment and Devices Division] business that actually loses money before corporate allocations and back out the nearly $2 billion 95 percent gross margin Android phone royalties, we conclude that Xbox platform plus Windows phone and Skype lose about $2.5 billion per year, and we estimate that the Xbox platform may account for roughly $2 billion of this," Sherlund said.
That staggering loss, he added, "is concealed by the hugely profitable Android royalties" that come out of licensing deals Microsoft has with makers of Android devices, which were forced by Google's infringement on various Microsoft patents during the development of the Android OS. Xbox is a "cool" product and successful consumer franchise, Sherlund said, "but it also loses a lot of money and we think is a distraction to the more enterprise strengths of Microsoft."
and i didn't want to start another thread for the fact that there already are too many doom and gloom MS threads..
oh well..
Man.. I hate it when your girl has to leave my place to come back to you..
