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Why is Samsung, HTC, LG and others paying Microsoft royalties for Android that is developed by Google?

Why is Samsung, HTC, LG and others paying Microsoft royalties for Android that is developed by Google?

The Android operating system is developed by Google, but Samsung pays $15 per device to Microsoft and HTC is paying $5 per device to Microsoft. It really doesn’t make any sense for Samsung to pay $15 per Android device sold to Microsoft, does it? For a good proportion of people this makes perfect sense. These […]