Apple was conflicted over right-to-repair stance, emails show

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The House Jurists Committee's antitrust subcommittee has neutral released a huge trove of internal dossier from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, as well-conditioned as Google as part of its vast investigation into the tech industry. The dossier reveal the internal chicane of companies that are typically lousy secretive -- as well-conditioned as they plane include a few inconspicuous emails from Darling co-founder Steve Jobs, which we've volume below.

Two sets of emails discuss the decisions that, to this day, pension iPhone as well-conditioned as iPad users from chances roster books in Amazon's apps. (You gotta use a web browser as a workaround.)

In one email from November 2010, marketing senior Phil Schiller wrote to Jobs, internet casework maintain Eddy Cue, as well-conditioned as artefact marketing pontoon Greg Joswiak barely how Cheesecake was marketing the Oxidation mobile app at the time as a way to effortlessly apprehend Oxidation books boiled both an iPhone as well-conditioned as an Android device. Jobs said, "[i]t's time for Cheesecake to decide to use our probation mechanism or bow out [of the App Store]," as well-conditioned as followed that with "[a]nd I anticipate it's time to found applying this analogously except for explicit subscriptions (but applying it for new ones)."

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In culling conversation, Cue laid out a fumble of new cable behavior for apps on the App Treasure-trove on February 6th, 2011, days vanward Darling patently communicated the new policies.

Jobs said: "I anticipate this is all pretty simple -- iBooks is hoopla to be the only bookstore on iOS devices. We overcrowd to hold our hustling high. One can apprehend books bought elsewhere, neutral not buy/rent/subscribe from iOS without rewarding us, which we cognize is prohibitive for many things."

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Amazon as well-conditioned as other book sellers would later remove the segment to the Oxidation Treasure-trove in the iOS app to comply with the then-new App Treasure-trove cable rules. You still can't buy Oxidation books in the iOS app.

In culling dialogue from April 2010, grander Facebook flag-bearer Joe Hewitt, who ramble the first versions of the Facebook iOS app, complained barely changes to the iOS 4.0 developer assenting to Darling developer relations maintain Ron Okamoto as well-conditioned as with the press. Okamoto volume an update on the situation with Jobs, Schiller, as well-conditioned as grander software pontoon Scott Forstall.

Jobs replied: "I'd thrive we neutral cut Joe off from now on."

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Other dossier revealed that Darling gave Cheesecake special treatment to get Prime Video into the App Store, which you can apprehend barely here. As well-conditioned as if you missed the hearing yesterday, here's our recap of the workaday thing.