It shouldn't go unnoted that WP is benefitting greatly from Android due to:

1) A large number of handset makers paying licensing fees of up to $10 per Android handset sold (See Motorola, HTC, and and up to half of total Android device makers). It's said that Microsoft makes more money for each Android phone sold than it does from sales of their WP's.

2) Many of the phones being put out (with the exception of Nokia) are multiplatfor based devices. In most cases, Android's device is released first, with a sibling device also released for Android. As of now, Nokia is the main WP exclusive manufacturer. Being able to sell a line of hardware on several platforms lowers development costs and saves the consumer money.


As for Android, Samsung, Motorola (now owned by Google) and Sony are the big Android exclusive makers (primary high end devices, not including proprietary OS devices).


Competition is good and the consumers ultimately win. The battle of lawsuits that's been going on for the past couple years between Apple, Microsoft, and everyone else is driving up costs and stiffling innovation. I hope it comes to end sooner than later, but I doubt it will.

This post was edited on 4/3 10:34 AM by dmm5157