{"id":45093,"date":"2012-03-07T09:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=45093"},"modified":"2012-03-07T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:50:34","slug":"apple-proposes-settlement-with-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/45093-apple-proposes-settlement-with-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple proposes settlement with Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising move, <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> may consider a settlement with <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>This is in contrast to their previous approach where former CEO <a title=\"Steve Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340669-Steve-Jobs\">Steve Jobs<\/a> promised to crush Android \u2013 no matter what the cost.<\/p>\n<p>The Down Jones newswires reported that Apple have proposed settlements to at least two Android smartphone vendors, <a title=\"Motorola\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211039-Motorola\">Motorola<\/a> and <a title=\"Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\">Samsung<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed terms, Apple will collect royalties of between $5 and $15 for each Android handset sold.<\/p>\n<p>If the report is accurate, it represents an about-turn from Apple\u2019s approach under Jobs, who vowed to destroy Android.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple\u2019s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,\u201d Jobs said. \u201cI\u2019m going to destroy Android, because it\u2019s a stolen product. I\u2019m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/03\/06\/apple-seeks-up-to-15-per-samsung-motorola-android-phone-sold-in-proposed-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple extends an olive branch to Android manufacturers, a departure from the former CEOs gun-ho approach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":41783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,605,943,645,609],"class_list":["post-45093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-motorola","tag-samsung","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45095,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093\/revisions\/45095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}