Apple and Google have held ‘lots and lots’ of meetings in a bid to resolve their differences, according to Google chairman Eric Schmidt.
Reuters reported that Schmidt told reporters at a media conference in Idaho that the companies are ‘constant business discussions on a long list of issues.’
Schmidt, a former Apple board member, didn’t elaborate on the content of the meetings, but said that Google’s Chief Business Officer, Nikesh Arora led them on the company’s behalf.
Steve Jobs was so incensed by Google’s Android operating system that he threatened to go ‘thermonuclear’ to beat it. And while iOS once featured several Google services as standard apps, such as You Tube and Google Maps, Apple has distanced itself from the company recently. It now builds its own Maps app and You Tube is no longer pre-installed with iOS.
While Apple has never issued legal proceedings against Google over what it believes are intellectual property infringements in Android, it has pursued handset manufactures such as Samsung. In turn, Google bought Motorola Mobility in 2011 and acquired with it several smartphone patents. Apple and Motorola have lodged suits against each other asserting patent infringement.
