<story><title>Steve Jobs: Let&apos;s force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1438188756738191362/photo/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>Schiller comes across as needy and with a very low confidence in their own product. Some other company shows that their product works equally well on both Android and iPhone, and his response is that it&amp;#x27;s not fun to watch?&lt;p&gt;Also, this should be shown to everyone that says they prefer the Apple ecosystem because &amp;quot;it just works&amp;quot;. You really can&amp;#x27;t get more user hostile than this, where you care more about extracting money from transactions that you&amp;#x27;re not a part of than making life easier for your paying customers.&lt;p&gt;Apple let Amazon sell books using their own payment system because Amazon sold a lot of books on their own Kindle platform that Apple wanted users to be able to read on iPhones, but as soon as Apple&amp;#x27;s platform was the biggest one they altered the deal to squeeze more money out of it. Like a monopoly would do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Schiller comes across as needy and with a very low confidence in their own product.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was definitely neither in my experience, but in 2010 he &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; (justifiably?) paranoid about dependencies and competitors ganging up on them.&lt;p&gt;You probably don&amp;#x27;t remember this era, but here&amp;#x27;s a representative article from just a month before this email thread: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;microsoft-adobe-apple&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;microsoft-adobe-apple&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This kind of paranoia became part of Apple&amp;#x27;s DNA in the late 90s, when Microsoft asked Apple to &amp;quot;knife the baby&amp;quot;[1], when Adobe was threatening Apple with killing their Mac apps, etc.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfgate.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;Microsoft-Asked-Apple-to-Knife-the-Baby-Court-2980345.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfgate.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;Microsoft-Asked-Appl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Steve Jobs: Let&apos;s force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1438188756738191362/photo/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>Schiller comes across as needy and with a very low confidence in their own product. Some other company shows that their product works equally well on both Android and iPhone, and his response is that it&amp;#x27;s not fun to watch?&lt;p&gt;Also, this should be shown to everyone that says they prefer the Apple ecosystem because &amp;quot;it just works&amp;quot;. You really can&amp;#x27;t get more user hostile than this, where you care more about extracting money from transactions that you&amp;#x27;re not a part of than making life easier for your paying customers.&lt;p&gt;Apple let Amazon sell books using their own payment system because Amazon sold a lot of books on their own Kindle platform that Apple wanted users to be able to read on iPhones, but as soon as Apple&amp;#x27;s platform was the biggest one they altered the deal to squeeze more money out of it. Like a monopoly would do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Valkhyr</author><text>Frankly, anybody who thinks that Apple is out for anybody but themselves is living in a dream.</text></comment>