{"id":608168,"date":"2026-06-02T05:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=819129"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:30:51","slug":"the-unexpected-deal-steve-jobs-offered-u2-after-refusing-to-hand-over-apple-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/the-unexpected-deal-steve-jobs-offered-u2-after-refusing-to-hand-over-apple-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected Deal Steve Jobs Offered U2 After Refusing to Hand Over Apple Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-unexpected-deal-steve-jobs-offered-u2-after-refusing-to-hand-over-apple-shares-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bono and Steve Jobs smile while holding portable music players during a product launch event. Credit photo : 2004 PETER DASILVA\/NYT\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>In 2004, U2 approached Apple about an ad deal, asking to be paid in Apple shares. Steve Jobs refused and instead steered the band into a no-fee campaign built around a special iPod U2 Edition, complete with black casing, red click wheel and engraved signatures. The tie-up drove a hit product and big sales without [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, U2 approached Apple about an ad deal, asking to be paid in Apple shares. Steve Jobs refused and instead steered the band into a no-fee campaign built around a special iPod U2 Edition, complete with black casing, red click wheel and engraved signatures. The tie-up drove a hit product and big sales without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-608168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}