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Is Samsung preparing to drop Android? | ExtremeTech
Is Samsung preparing to drop Android? | ExtremeTech
By Sebastian Anthony on September 28, 2011 at 11:04 am
The royalty that Samsung is paying Microsoft per Android device is unknown, but earlier this year Microsoft secured a similar deal with HTC where it gets $5 per Android device sold. With Samsung and HTC under its sway, Microsoft now receives royalties for over 50% of Android sales in the US; only the soon-to-be-owned-by-Google Motorola Mobility remains.
That resolution alone should be more than enough to send a shudder up Big G's pant leg and across its jockstrap — but to add insult to injury, Samsung announced yesterday that it is now working with Intel on Tizen, a free, open-source, Linux-based smartphone OS. It will be derived from MeeGo, the critically-acclaimed but stillborn OS that itself was a merger of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo operating systems.