Microsoft is making five times more money from its Android royalty schemes than from its own Windows Phone 7 platform, Asymco's Horace Dediu said in a dissection of a Citi research note. Based on claims by analyst Walter Pritchard that HTC is paying $5 per phone for Android-related patents Microsoft says it owns, Dediu determined that HTC has had to pay a total of $150 million for the 30 million Google-based phones it has shipped so far. With Microsoft have so far only reported shipping two million WP7 devices and charging $15 for the OS on each phone, it would have
