With the supporting of Google’s free operating system – Android, Samsung has been Apple’s most competitive competitor in smartphone market. However, Samsung also has to pay a large sum of money to Microsoft for some patents used in Android system as well. Actually, not only Samsung but also other smartphone manufacturing companies who use Android operating system have to face with this problem – paying certain amount of royalty fee to get access to using the patents.

Personally, I think Samsung is facing with a challenge in today’s technology competition. As a giant company, they cannot guarantee to devote enough time and effort to developing operating system. What they can do is to modify their phones to adjust the Android system or to make their phones work better under Android system. Since Samsung is using Android for free, they do not have to charge customers extra. If Google changed their mind and stopped offering free access to Android, the cost of producing a Samsung smartphone would definitely increase. It is hard to predict whether customers will pay for this extra charge in the future. They may turn to their second best choice.

Works Cited

Ovide, Shira. “Samsung Paid Microsoft $1 Billion Last Year for Android Royalty, Filing Says”. Wall Street Journal. Oct 3^rd. Web.

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http://online.wsj.com/articles/samsung-paid-microsoft-1-billions-last-year-for-android-phone-royalty-court-filing-says-1412382330

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