Microsoft makes more money from Samsung than from Skype, Windows Phone, and Xbox combined

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If Microsoft pursued vendettas against OEMs, how many OEMs would continue to sell products using Microsoft software? Microsoft wants to make money, not take over the world, because they know from past experience that the anti-trust regulators will NEVER let them take over the world. Years ago, MS kept Apple out of bankruptcy, not out of the kindness of Bill Gates's heart, but because they needed at least one viable competitor (the Mac) in the PC market to have any hope of not being broken up.

Microsoft doesn't want to kill Android - sure, they'd like a bigger piece of the mobile pie, but they also want to make money. They also want their customers, both enterprises and consumers, to feel that Microsoft can support them in whatever they do. In their own way, they've developed a similar business attitude to the one that has brought record profits to IBM in the years since IBM pulled out of PCs. In the long run, customer trust that they continually provide competitive products and services is what brings profits, and that's what they're working toward.
 

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If Microsoft pursued vendettas against OEMs, how many OEMs would continue to sell products using Microsoft software? Microsoft wants to make money, not take over the world, because they know from past experience that the anti-trust regulators will NEVER let them take over the world. Years ago, MS kept Apple out of bankruptcy, not out of the kindness of Bill Gates's heart, but because they needed at least one viable competitor (the Mac) in the PC market to have any hope of not being broken up.

But we know that deep down they would love to take over the world if these pesky authorities weren't getting in the way. :D

Jokes aside, your post made a lot of sense. Thank you for that. :)
 

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If that was the case, MS would've never bought Nokia, they would've gone for Samsung instead.
Nokia has a WP share of more than 95%, Samsung has it around 2%. So how is your statement justified? From wherever you are getting this information, its totally false.

Firstly Microsoft never discloses its sales figures or profit figures like other companies.

MS cannot afford to buy Samsung, even if they could there's no way Samsung would ever agree. MS, Google, Samsung, Apple, Cisco, Intel etc all the large tech companies own different IP hence the battles to buy companies not due to the profit they make, more to do with IP and the value that they can add. They all license off of each other, that's just the way the world is. The problem comes from China where they do not respect IP and blatantly copy and infringe left right and centre. It really is no surprise to me if they make more from Samsung and its not an issue if they do.

MS did the right thing in buying Nokia, they had an inside man (Elop) at the helm and the division was nose diving, MS got an AMAZING deal.

Heres an article of Mobile IP back in 2012 before MS purchased Nokia.. https://gigaom.com/2012/04/17/meet-the-mobile-patent-kings-samsung-and-nokia/
 

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I have heard tell from various discussions on this (the Windows Weekly podcast had Paul Thurrott had mentioned this on their most recent release, if memory serves) that MS has claimed over 200 patents are used in Android, but that none of these have ever been tested in court.

So what it boils down to is all this cash flows into MS from Android OEM's on MS say-so.

THAT is a company that knows what it is doing....
 

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As far as I know, (most of) the patents Microsoft owns are so called "essential patents", patents that every mobile phone needs to operate. By law, you can't withhold those patents from other companies. You have to license them for a reasonable price (how much is reasonable is up to debate, of course). So while Microsoft can cash in on their patents, they can't withhold them from Android manufacturers.
 

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