Apple's new iPhones are fine but Microsoft really profits from smartphones

iPhone! iPhone! iPhone! Oh please, get over yourself, Apple! Yes, people are excited about the new iPhones, but so what? Apple will never, ever get to the top of the smartphone heap again so long as the true giant of smartphone revenue, Microsoft, is on the scene.

It's not because Microsoft's Windows Phone market share exploded to 90-percent while you weren't looking. It didn’t grow. No matter how you measure Windows Phone market share -- Nielsen, 2 percent; Gartner, 3.3 percent; or IDC, 3.7 percent -- Microsoft’s share is far in the rear of Apple iPhones and the Android smartphone family.

And, Microsoft certainly didn't catapult itself into the lead by buying Nokia. Nokia's market share has been dropping like a rock.

No, the reason why Microsoft is number one with a bullet is because it profits from Android-related patents.

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