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How much is Nokia’s support for Windows Phone 7 worth to Microsoft? Try
more than $1 billion, two sources familiar with a deal between the
companies tell Bloomberg.
The deal will run for more than five years, the sources say, which tells
us that Nokia will serve as Microsoft’s flagship Windows Phone
manufacturer well into the next generation of smartphones. To put it in
perspective, in five years Apple would be on its tenth iPhone iteration.
Nokia will also pay Microsoft a fee for every copy of Windows on its
phones (so basically, every phone). But Nokia will also be saving quite a
bit of money that it otherwise would have been spending on software
research and development.
Nokia’s licensing payments will ultimately allow Microsoft to make a
profit off of the billion dollar deal, one of the sources said. Microsoft
will pay the Finnish phone company a portion of what it’s owed even before
it delivers new phones, which are expected to debut at the end of the
year. That’s not surprising, since Nokia likely needs the extra cash to
make its sexy Windows Phone design concepts a reality. |
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