Goldman Sachs predicts Microsoft will earn $444 million in revenue from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 (fiscal year 2012) from “cross-license” agreements with Android vendors.
This comes from estimated royalties of $3 to $6 per Android handset. The most publicized deal is with HTC seeing a signed similar deals with Microsoft.
Yesterday’s announcements from Amazon for their new Kindle lineup have lead to fears that they too might have to cough up a royalty to Microsoft.
The report from BI notes that this is still a drop in the bucket to Microsoft’s overall estimated revenue of $75 billion for fiscal 2012 (even if it is more than revenue from Windows Phone licences):
“So, the money it gets from Android is almost nothing, especially when you consider the incredible damage Android is doing to Microsoft’s dominance as a computing platform.”
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