Samsung is the largest producer of terminals Android from around the world and during 2013 it sold several hundred million smart terminals worldwide, setting its own sales record. The large number of units sold around the world also generated high costs for the Koreans, who pay the company Microsoft not less than 1 billion dollars in licensing fees which allowed him to implement certain functions in his own smartphones.
The amount is colossal and denotes the fact that Microsoft has a great influence on terminal manufacturers Android, Despite the fact that develop a platform competitors and sells a suite of competing products. Samsung it is not the only company that pays serious sums of money to Microsoft as part of licensing agreements centered on the Android platform, but it is one of the most important ones for which exact amounts are known.
