{"id":659121,"date":"2013-05-20T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=566177"},"modified":"2013-05-20T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:15:38","slug":"samsung-keeps-inching-away-from-google-wants-more-galaxy-exclusive-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659121","title":{"rendered":"Samsung keeps inching away from Google, wants more Galaxy-exclusive apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/20\/samsung-galaxy-exclusive-apps\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/samsung-galaxy-s4-1.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy Exclusive Apps\" title=\"Samsung Galaxy Exclusive Apps\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>We&#8217;ve known for a while that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/15\/samsung-android-relationship-analysis-380102\/\">Samsung wants to significantly decrease its dependence on Google<\/a> and its Android platform, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2013\/05\/20\/wanted-apps-for-galaxy-smartphones\/\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a> that the company &#8220;will be hosting a global competition to lure developers to create apps for its Galaxy smartphones&#8221; that will pay 10 winners a combined $800,000 in prize money. The <em>Journal<\/em> says that Samsung is &#8220;particularly looking for apps that can be coordinated with&#8221; its new Group Play feature that debuted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/galaxy-s4\">Galaxy S4<\/a> and that lets users quickly\u00a0zap music, photos and other content via NFC from one phone to another. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/15\/samsung-galaxy-s-4-feature-video-379791\/\">Samsung&#8217;s strategy with the Galaxy S4 hasn&#8217;t just been to deliver improved specifications from earlier models but to add several new software features<\/a> that the company thinks will help its devices stand out in a crowded Android market.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/DQEInjKZIEE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for a while that Samsung wants to significantly decrease its dependence on Google and its Android platform, and now The Wall Street Journal reports that the company &#8220;will be hosting a global competition to lure developers to create apps for its Galaxy smartphones&#8221; that will pay 10 winners a combined $800,000 in prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}