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Apple could get $6 to $8 for every smartphone HTC sells

12 November, 2012 | Read the news | Post your comment
Apple could get $6 to $8 for every smartphone HTC sells - read the full textA new 10 year patent licensing deal came in effect two days ago between Apple and HTC. However details on what the benefits for either side might be weren't given at the time. Shaw Wu, analyst at Sterne Agee, reckons Apple could be generating between $6 and $8 per sold HTC smartphone, which...

 

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When Apple may demand from HTC for $6 -$8 per phone sold, it considered $1 to Motorola for hand phone core wireless patent is reasonable. How arrogant Apple is!

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  • 2012-11-13 11:46
  • uH@e

Those Sammy android fans are dumb are you more business oriented than HTC you all have think ahead all this is aim at killing Samsung which is inevitable when HTC will combine iOS & android power together you all hypocrites will be call for dumb Sammy head if not apple slowing down HTC who's Sammy when it comes to android powered phone check ur record their once the android powerhouse

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  • 2012-11-13 11:41
  • N9@S

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-11-13 09:14 from QKDa - click to readLol at all these so called ex-Apple customers hahaha. Wonder if people actually believe these shoddy lies.

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  • 2012-11-13 11:27
  • IW1U

I love HTC product but why pay apple for the licensing...oh well, no more HTC, going for Asus or Samsung..

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  • 2012-11-13 11:23
  • IWdn

Before we know it, apple is gonna earn $$$ from each other devices sold so long as they are rectangles with rounded corners.

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  • 2012-11-13 10:03
  • XMJN

Haha, well done Apple, that will pay off the UK bills.

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  • 2012-11-13 09:41
  • StUA

Oh noooooooo HTC! its all about the money. goodbye

Apple you do not know what you have done because

HTC = Hell To Crapple!

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  • 2012-11-13 09:18
  • ALLn

> In reply to johnathan @ 2012-11-13 06:59 from IDw5 - click to readAnd lost me too as consumer.

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  • 2012-11-13 09:14
  • QKDa

Yes royalty fees

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  • 2012-11-13 07:37
  • v0Xt

> In reply to Shb @ 2012-11-12 21:35 from QKDa - click to readtotally!

apple is biting more of its share :[

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  • 2012-11-13 07:33
  • vww$

Thankyou HTC for paying Apple.
If your quadcore powerhouse can't make an OS smooth
this is great news and hope you are paying miscoft
for using lagdriod too.

Thankyou HTC

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  • 2012-11-13 07:00
  • uBSu

I'm sorry apple but you just lost me as a customer. I can't stand these petty lawsuits everyday.

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  • 2012-11-13 06:59
  • IDw5

do people actually know what they are saying or do they just make stuff up as they go and then end up believing it themselves?

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  • 2012-11-13 06:57
  • 9DR7

HTC are cowards, they don't sell much now and i wonder what technology they are paying for!

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  • 2012-11-13 06:50
  • fmx3

They get $6 to $8 assuming HTC used all the patents. HTC will just learn to work around them somehow. They'll just end up using a few and eventually none at all.

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  • 2012-11-13 06:15
  • 2Am2

WTF apple is doing, they make easy money on a company who's struggling in smartphone battle. And maybe they just want to eliminate HTC out.

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  • 2012-11-13 05:44
  • vj1i

does htc hav any sense of business or they dissolved it in their touch sense?? better they would have filed the case n settled in the court... they dont have guts like samsung which after big time fight wid apple, lost but atleast they fought hard enuf n showed apple what they r what they desreves... n they lost only in US while they won every other places... apple has patented everything means only they have rights yo make smartphones n the world will become a dumb..this will lead to anarchy... poor law of US... thats y their economy goin down...

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  • 2012-11-13 05:40
  • U{00

nice one apple, first, you will agree to pay motorola if it's only $1 per unit but you want $6 - $8 per unit on HTC.. what a greedy company..

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  • 2012-11-13 05:37
  • 9xB$

So much fail on htc part. They went from winning an lte battle to paying apple? Apple is losing left right and center. Htc you suck. I'll never buy your phone. When I heard you settled out of court I knew you the worst of the deal. Good luck with your falling profits. Hope you die quickly

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  • 2012-11-13 04:15
  • jxXT

Strange to see so many uninformed here, as it is HTC are also paying Microsoft as well. So is Samsung and Sony I believe. Many articles have stated that the manufacturers are very angry, as they believe the fault is with Google, who both copied iOS and Microsoft patents, as well as doing nothing to protect Android.

If google keep this up, I will not be surprised to see more emphasis of the manufacturers on WP8, as they will not lose so much money.

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  • 2012-11-13 04:13
  • PG5Y
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