Established: HTC will pay Apple licensing fees to be in patent dispute [Update: $6-$8/unit].

Thanks to the rather surprising weekend headline, we found out that HTC is officially sleeping with all the enemy now. The Taiwanese manufacturer has struck a 10-year patent cross-licensing take care of Apple, putting to an end years of hard-fought courtrooms battles between the two.

Although the joint blog post was rather short on specifics, many were convinced that it’d be Apple who stands out as the one holding the whip.

We don’t need to wonder anymore, since an insider has confirmed the most obvious to The Wall Street Journal. As part of the arrangement, according to the source, HTC will have to pay licensing fees to The apple company, the amount of which continues to be kept a secret.

HTC did mention yesterday that this agreement isn’t expected “to have any adverse material have an effect on the financials of the company”. So it’s highly unlikely that Apple will probably be charging $30 – $40 per device to the fees – the amount that Cupertino wanted Samsung to pay.
Good luck, HTC.

Update: Based on Shaw Wu, an analyst from Sterne Agee quoted by Business Insider, HTC may be paying $6-$8 to Apple for each and every device sold. That would equate to about $180-$280 million in income for Apple. Question is: why did Apple realize its necessary to ask those beyond reach rates to Samsung?