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Coming up with a broad sample of "terms that would be considered onerous by one Steve Jobs" turns out to be a fun mental exercise.
by mrkurt 16y ago
Coming up with a broad sample of "terms that would be considered onerous by one Steve Jobs" turns out to be a fun mental exercise.
- andreyf 16y agoWild guess: facebook wanted Apple to have an open API to retrieve users' music listening preferences.
- brownleej 16y agoThat seems unlikely if the breakdown in negotiations was as last-minute as others have speculated. Asking someone to implement an open API the night the product ships would be a bit extreme. It's possible that Apple had implemented such an API, but cancelled it at the last minute, but I don't think so. If Jobs didn't want an open API, he wouldn't agree to it in the first place. With these two companies, it's hard to say who was in the wrong until we have details on what the sticking point was. It could be privacy, it could be advertising, it could be revenue-sharing, etc.
- joe_the_user 16y agoWhat percentage of those terms would be "terms offered by one Steve Jobs" to users?