More flies are hunted with honey than with vinegar, which, taken to the tumultuous terrain of mobile telephony and patents, can be translated as a better alliance in hand than a policy of prohibition and indiscriminate banning .
We refer, as you can imagine, to the way of proceeding of Microsoft and Apple, respectively, with regard to the claim for functions and systems registered in the United States - from where a doctrine regarding patents is emanating that reaches relative heights. absurd, like the one we are dealing with now.
While Apple is dedicated to blocking the sales of competitors around the world - or at least tries to -, Microsoft prefers to seal alliances with manufacturers that use some of its patents. We already know cases like those of Samsung or HTC, but today we learned that the Korean LG is not exempt from paying a fee to those of Redmond. The irony is that it is not a payment for licenses, but for each Android-based mobile that the Asian firm sells in the world.
In fact, we already told you in the second half of 2011 that Microsoft came to earn more money from the sales of Android phones than from those it received from terminals with Windows Phone 7. At that time, 55 percent of the mobiles marketed worldwide with the Google operating system allocated part of their sales to Microsoft's coffers. Today, after learning that the South Korean LG will also have to go through the Redmond box, the percentage grows to 70 percent of the Android device park.
If the percentage continues to increase, and considering that the forecasts of the main analysts in the sector predict that Windows Phone and Android will be at the forefront of mobile ecosystems for the next three years, the great beneficiary in financial criteria of the smart telephony sector it would be Microsoft, unless Google stops using the patents from which Microsoft is establishing alliances to avoid legal litigation.
