Other documents revealed that Apple gave Amazon special treatment to get Prime Video into the App Store, which you can check out here. And if you missed the hearing the other day, heres our recap of the entire thing.
In another discussion, Cue laid out a draft of new subscription policies for apps on the App Store on February 6th, 2011, days prior to Apple officially announced the brand-new policies.
Jobs responded: “I d suggest we simply cut Joe off from now on.”.
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Amazon and other book sellers would later on get rid of the link to the Kindle Store in the iOS app to comply with the then-new App Store subscription rules. You still cant buy Kindle books in the iOS app.
The Home Judiciary Committees antitrust subcommittee has just released a huge chest of internal files from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google as part of its large examination into the tech market. The files reveal the internal machinations of companies that are normally highly secretive– and they even include a few buried emails from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, which we have actually shared below.
In one e-mail from November 2010, marketing chief Phil Schiller wrote to Jobs, web services lead Eddy Cue, and product marketing head Greg Joswiak about how Amazon was marketing the Kindle mobile app at the time as a method to easily read Kindle books throughout both an iPhone and an Android device. Jobs said: “I believe this is all pretty simple– iBooks is going to be the only book shop on iOS gadgets. We need to hold our heads high. One can check out books purchased somewhere else, just not buy/rent/subscribe from iOS without paying us, which we acknowledge is prohibitive for lots of things.”.
Jobs stated: “I think this is all quite simple– iBooks is going to be the only book shop on iOS devices. We need to hold our heads high. One can read books purchased elsewhere, just not buy/rent/subscribe from iOS without paying us, which we acknowledge is prohibitive for many things.”.
Two sets of e-mails go over the choices that, to this day, keep iPhone and iPad users from buying digital books in Amazons apps. (You have to utilize a web browser as a workaround.).
In another conversation from April 2010, former Facebook employee Joe Hewitt, who constructed the very first versions of the Facebook iOS app, grumbled about changes to the iOS 4.0 designer agreement to Apple designer relations lead Ron Okamoto and with the press. Okamoto shared an upgrade on the scenario with Jobs, Schiller, and former software head Scott Forstall.
In one e-mail from November 2010, marketing chief Phil Schiller wrote to Jobs, internet services lead Eddy Cue, and item marketing head Greg Joswiak about how Amazon was marketing the Kindle mobile app at the time as a way to easily read Kindle books throughout both an iPhone and an Android gadget. Jobs said,” [i] ts time for Amazon to decide to utilize our payment mechanism or bail out [of the App Store],” and followed that with” [a] nd I think its time to start applying this consistently except for existing subscriptions (however using it for brand-new ones).”.
