Android: Google and Apple Reportedly in Talks Regarding Patent Issues

By Karla Robinson
August 31, 2012

According to inside sources, Apple and Google have been in talks concerning “a range of intellectual property matters, including the ongoing mobile patent disputes between the companies,” reports Reuters.
From lower-level officials to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page, the discussions between the two companies have been kept under wraps.
Sources tell Reuters that Cook and Page are expected to talk again in the coming weeks, following Apple’s noteworthy legal victory over Samsung, which uses Google’s Android OS.
“One possible scenario under consideration could be a truce involving disputes over basic features and functions in Google’s Android mobile software, one source said. But it’s unclear whether Page and Cook are discussing a broad settlement of the various disputes between the two companies — most of which involve the burgeoning mobile computing area — or are focused on a more limited set of issues,” notes the article.
As mobile wars rage on, Apple has made moves to distance itself from Google; it has replaced Google’s mobile mapping software with its own and has axed Google’s preloaded YouTube app on the lastest iOS update.
The talks could suggest that Cook is more conciliatory than his predecessor Steve Jobs who called Android a “stolen product” and threatened “thermonuclear war” against the platform.

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