The question investors, technologists and strategists have long been asking is, “What is Steve Ballmer willing to pay to beat Apple and Google?” Now we have a small part of the answer, $230 per cell phone
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#1 By
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1/31/2012 12:31:51 PM
What a stupid article!!!!
The premise is that since MS paid NOKIA $250 million and NOKIA sold 1 million phones at $20-$30 per license then that comes out to $230 that MS must be willing to pay per phone.
What happens if NOKIA sells another million phones over the next 2 months? I guess the number then becomes $115 per phone.
I'm sure Steve Balmer has loftier goals than to take a loss of $230 per phone in the NOKIA deal.
Regardless of what the final numbers end up being - to make money, you have to spend money.
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1/31/2012 12:36:40 PM