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This article buries the lede, which should be at the top. It states: > Yesterday, further emails published by the U.S. antitrust subcommittee revealed that App
by Fej 6y ago
This article buries the lede, which should be at the top. It states:
> Yesterday, further emails published by the U.S. antitrust subcommittee revealed that Apple offered Amazon lower App Store fees to convince it to launch its Prime Video app on the App Store and Apple TV.
> The news that Apple made exceptions for Amazon for Kindle prior to 2011 and for Prime Video has caused confusion among some observers, as Apple has consistently claimed it treats every developer the same. Phil Schiller stated ahead of the antitrust inquiry this week that all apps in the App Store have been treated "the same - one set of rules for everybody, no special deals, no special terms, no special code, everything applies to all developers the same."
Phil Schiller was rather dishonest - implying that it always been this way, when it clearly has not. If his statement was identical to how MacRumors writes - the words "have been" are outside the direct quote from Schiller, where he could have said "are" in the present tense - then it was an outright lie. Not a good look in an era of renewed antitrust scrutiny.