It's a fair question now that we know Microsoft is getting paid $5 for every HTC Android phone while Google gives Android away for free. Microsoft's take adds up to $150 million in all, based on a rough estimate that HTC has shipped 30 million such devices. And Microsoft is reportedly suing other Android phone makers.http://goo.gl/fkauM At this rate, Microsoft is making more off Android than it does Windows Phone http://goo.gl/nLwVo
As detailed today in a story in the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft Corp.'s revenue in China this year will be about 5% of what it gets in the U.S. even though personal-computer sales in the two countries are almost equal. The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, said revenue per personal-computer sold in China is only about a sixth of the amount it gets in India, and that its total revenue in China is less than what it gets in the Netherlands, a country of less than 17 million people.
Paul Krugman writing in today's New York Times: “The economic situation remains deeply abnormal, with unprecedented long-term unemployment; why should monetary policy be normal? . . . .To return to a regular theme of mine: we’re living in a world in which Very Serious People keep inventing theories and justifications on the fly to justify policy orthodoxy in a highly unorthodox situation; meanwhile, those of us who rely on actual, coherent analysis based on standard economics are considered dangerous radicals.” Still Crazy After All These Months - NYTimes.com