Despite Steve Ballmer's
apparent disdain for the Googly OS, he must love it really. He's now making money from ten separate Android and Chrome
licensing deals, having just inked yet another agreement with
Compal -- a large Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM) that builds tablets and smartphones for brands like Lenovo. From this point on, a "reasonable and fair" chunk of Compal's $28 billion annual income will be diverted to the coffers at Redmond. Overall, this means that Microsoft's tentacles have spread across 55 percent of the Android ODM industry and --
more importantly -- are poked firmly into two different mobile OS pies. As cut-throat as this approach might seem, however, it's surely better than freezing the market with cold and ceaseless
waves of litigation. PR after the break.
[Thanks, Majed]
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