Microsoft's Q2 revenue from Android estimated at three times its Windows Phone revenue

Co-signed. The patent system in the U.S. is what’s fucked up. I expect corporations to take advantage of any and every tool at their disposal to maximize their profits. That’s what corporations do. Anything they do that’s to the benefit of the consumer without a direct or indirect benefit is just gravy.

Maybe we should ignore patent system and become more like china!

@6f4cd54007257a1dbfb2b8a2b65ea711:disqus Of course! I’ve been such a fool! As we all know, there’s no room in this discussion for a reasoned, nuanced discussion whereby reforms are implemented. It’s either worship at the altar of the status quo, or… what was your point, exactly? China has a patent system. As a matter of fact, recognizing the monster that the U.S. has created, they’re encouraging people to patent anything and everything they can think of.

Your argument is to either keep on doing what we’re doing, or to keep on doing what we’re doing. I’m sure your retort seemed very witty when you were typing it, but that’s a swing and a miss.

Not everyone does it. Google doesn’t do it.

And smaller players definitely don’t. They don’t have the money to bring frivolous patent claims. It’s the companies with pockets deep enough to acquire huge patent portfolios and bring constant litigation that do this kind of stuff.

Is the patent system broken? Yes. Should they complain about that? I’m sure they do.

Is it wrong to complain about people who abuse that broken system? Of course it isn’t. You don’t take advantage of a loophole and tell others pointing it out that they should change the system and not you. You’re deliberately exploiting a loophole.

Google has people in Washington, they should get to work.

Who said it did…? It takes time to go from 0-Hero. But from the look of things, the future is bleak. Anyone on the market for a phone wants one of two things most of the time: Android or iPhone. I’ve seen just one WP7 device since it’s inception, and that was a Focus that a co-worker was testing for our IT dept.

Right, but in the first year Android came out, people only wanted the iPhone.  Once Mango hits, Microsoft and Nokia are going to have huge marketing campaigns, as well as their OEM and carrier partners, though theirs will probably not be a big.  Either way, people will know about the phones and they’ll want them, it just takes marketing.  The OS is already solid and hardware will be on par with competing devices.  I mean, don’t get me wrong, it could gain no traction and fail, but I doubt that will be the case.

I agree. But even with a massive marketing campaign, it’s still up to the consumers to actually find the devices appealing. Basically, “Why should I get this other the other two success mobile platforms?” People liked Android for the various form factors and the numerous customizations available in its unrooted form, compared to iOS’ dead-simple ease of use.

We’ll have to wait and see what their numbers look like in the first half of 2012.

I get what your saying, but most consumers are very simple minded. The majority of Android and WP7 devices will feature very similar form factors and WP7 is simple to use as well. Android will always be more customizable because of it’s open nature, but we’ve all seen this before with Windows Mobile, and quite frankly, I think it’s worse with Android because of the security exploitations. People are noticing this too.Subject: [bgr] Re: Microsoft’s Q2 revenue from Android estimated at three times its Windows Phone revenue

I’m talking about life support in smartphone sales nothing else, not software or anything else. They are on life support when it comes to smartphones!!!!

And then you shut up..