Microsoft makes on Android than for WP7
Aug 07
Royalties obtained in the second kvartele of this year have shown that sales of Android through Microsoft earned three times more than the sales of Windows Phone 7. Such a conclusion was made according to the analyst Asymco.
Speeches at the same time is only about sales of so-called “smart phones” Taiwanese company HTC. According to some reports, for each device based on Android, the company pays $ 5 Microsoft.
In April-June, HTC has sold nearly 12 million devices with support for Android from Google. Therefore we can conclude that the corporation earned about Ballmer’s $ 60 million. License as Windows Phone 7 is $ 15 for each smartphone, as well as the world was sold only 1.4 million such devices, it means that they have brought Microsoft’s 21 million dollars.
An expert from Citigroup in late May, has already tried to calculate income on sales Android-smartphone. At the same time the comparison was incorrect due to different calendar periods, data are not taken into account.







