Internal Emails Show How An Amazon Ad Prompted Steve Jobs And Phil Schiller To Block In App Purchases Of Kindle Books On Ios
What’s important to remember is that this sort of arrangement wasn’t always the case. Up until early 2011, you could buy Kindle ebooks directly in the Kindle app on iOS. As first uncovered by the Verge, two sets of emails included in the internal documents include conversations between Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, and other Apple executives regarding this situation. In a separate email, Schiller said: “It’s time for them to use our payment mechanism or bow out,” Jobs said in a separate email....