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Soleron on 15 July 2013
dallas said:

Research and Development was 14% of revenue, which is a pretty high number. That's why we hear all about patents from google glass, search, mobile, etc. MSFT might have 10% of monies generated from revenues going to R&D, they just can't spend as much bc of that super high dividend payout ratio. 45% of all of MSFT's profits have to go to a dividend.... R&D for MSFT is going to go down, it has to.  And therefore, eventually MSFT won't be able to patent troll google anymore, so android will become profitable when this happens.

The Microsoft "Android tax" is a secret cross license; no money actually changes hands. It's just to make MS look good in the press.

If MS were actually taking $5-$10 per phone vs Google+Samsung+Sony+HTC etc, the lawsuit would be unending. Instead they all cooperated immediately.



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disolitude on 15 July 2013

LOL. Slow day at your house dallas?

Google hasn't reported Q2 earnings yet and these are Q1 earnings from April 2013.



dallas on 15 July 2013
Soleron said:
dallas said:

Research and Development was 14% of revenue, which is a pretty high number. That's why we hear all about patents from google glass, search, mobile, etc. MSFT might have 10% of monies generated from revenues going to R&D, they just can't spend as much bc of that super high dividend payout ratio. 45% of all of MSFT's profits have to go to a dividend.... R&D for MSFT is going to go down, it has to.  And therefore, eventually MSFT won't be able to patent troll google anymore, so android will become profitable when this happens.

The Microsoft "Android tax" is a secret cross license; no money actually changes hands. It's just to make MS look good in the press.

If MS were actually taking $5-$10 per phone vs Google+Samsung+Sony+HTC etc, the lawsuit would be unending. Instead they all cooperated immediately.


I'm sure.



crissindahouse on 15 July 2013

serious question, do you work as "social network marketing guy" for google or something like that? i mean, google is pretty much all you talk about on vgchartz since i know you.

or you talk about microsoft as competitior of google but then it's most of the time only to show that google is better for the same stuff.

 

@topic: these numbers are 3 months old.



DirtyP2002 on 15 July 2013
dallas said:

Research and Development was 14% of revenue, which is a pretty high number. That's why we hear all about patents from google glass, search, mobile, etc. MSFT might have 10% of monies generated from revenues going to R&D, they just can't spend as much bc of that super high dividend payout ratio. 45% of all of MSFT's profits have to go to a dividend.... R&D for MSFT is going to go down, it has to.  And therefore, eventually MSFT won't be able to patent troll google anymore, so android will become profitable when this happens.


I am going to bed in a few minutes, just some input here:

1st: 10% of MS revenue is still more than 14% of Googles revenue.
2nd: paying a dividend is not a bad thing to do. You act like MS bribes investors.
3rd: 45% dividend is wrong. It is 32%
4th: There are more indicators for great R&D than money spent for it. A great idea, a cool innovation does not need to be expensive.
5th: How is MS "patent trolling" google?



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Soleron on 15 July 2013
dallas said:
Soleron said:
dallas said:

Research and Development was 14% of revenue, which is a pretty high number. That's why we hear all about patents from google glass, search, mobile, etc. MSFT might have 10% of monies generated from revenues going to R&D, they just can't spend as much bc of that super high dividend payout ratio. 45% of all of MSFT's profits have to go to a dividend.... R&D for MSFT is going to go down, it has to.  And therefore, eventually MSFT won't be able to patent troll google anymore, so android will become profitable when this happens.

The Microsoft "Android tax" is a secret cross license; no money actually changes hands. It's just to make MS look good in the press.

If MS were actually taking $5-$10 per phone vs Google+Samsung+Sony+HTC etc, the lawsuit would be unending. Instead they all cooperated immediately.


I'm sure.

I can't find my source, just looked sorry.



ebw on 15 July 2013
dallas said:

Wow.  Google has reported revenues of $14 Billion, up 31% from a year earlier. 

Profit is reported at $3.4 Billion, from $2.9 Billion a year ago, increase of 17%. 

MSFT hasn't reported yet, but here is no way that they will be able to show year over year increases of this magnitude. No F'kin way.

Could someone explain why you are posting results from 3 months ago as if it were news?  Google isn't reporting earnings until Thursday.

EDIT: I see disolitude has already pointed this out.  But anyway, it bears repeating.  This is just another clickbait thread.



Seece on 15 July 2013

I don't understand why everything you post is a jab at Microsoft ...



 

psrock on 15 July 2013

If you really want to put some nice Google numbers, look at their stock price. My God.......



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disolitude on 15 July 2013
psrock said:
If you really want to put some nice Google numbers, look at their stock price. My God.......

Google stock has been doing great in 2013 but the actual stock price really doesn't matter or says anything about the stock.

For example, unlike Microsoft, Google has not had any splits. Microsoft has had seven 2 to 1 splits and three 3 to 2 splits, plus they give a dividend. Without stock splits, a Microsoft share would potentially be worth over 10,000 dollars today from when they went public in 1986.

But since people talk about current stock trends, here is a stock comparison between the big 3 for 2013.

If you invested 10,000 dollars in each company on Jan 1, 2013, here is how much money you would have today. (July 15, 2013)

Apple - (10,000/606.91)*427.44 + 90 (dividend) = $ 7,132.89

Google - (10,000/723.25)*924.69 = $12,785

Microsoft - (10,000/27.62)*36.17 + 160 (dividend) = $13,255

So yeah...If you investend money in 2013 Apple lost 28% of your money, Google gained you 28% and Microsoft gained 32%.

Dallas can sing his earnings song abount Microsoft getting destroyed all he wants, but these are the facts.