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• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  Now we know how Apple convinced Amazon to finally put Prime Video on the App Store in 2017: Apple agreed to only take 15% of revenue from Prime Video subscriptions made on iOS, versus the 30% they were taking from others. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Rep Johnson asking why Amazon gets reduced commissions in the App Store and if anyone else can get them. Cook says yes if they meet conditions.

• @marcoarment Marco Arment on x

  Nice to see Eddy uses proper bullets in his lists. You can always spot the Apple exec in an email chain. https://twitter.com/...

• @dhh @dhh on x

  “We treat all developers the same”. So perjury then? https://twitter.com/...

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  Another revelation: Amazon expected to make $3.2 billion in year 1 of its reseller deal with Apple two years ago. https://twitter.com/...

• @dhh @dhh on x

  Cook tries to say that the sweetheart deal they made with Amazon Prime Video is available to everyone 😂. I would like that deal!!

• @edbott Ed Bott on x

  The role of Gordon Gekko will be played in tonight's performance by Tim Cook. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattrosoff Matt Rosoff on x

  Smart piece: yesterday's tech hearings weren't very useful, but the docs released by the committee offer new insight into how the giants do business. https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org / ...

• @halsinger Hal Singer on x

  Demings: Why did you restrict access to Facebook (API???) to Pinterest but not to Netflix? Zuck: Pinterest was a social competitor to us. Me: Oop. Discriminatory refusals to deal are illegal under the antitrust laws.

• @adrjeffries Adrianne Jeffries on x

  Rep. Steube says Gmail is censoring Republican email. We actually did an investigation on this in February. We found that Gmail often puts political email into the Promotions folder, which it says is for marketing. But there was no partisan pattern. https://themarkup.org/...

• @bariawilliams Br A. Williams on x

  I do appreciate that Mark was the only one who directly answered ("yes") the question, “Does China steal IP from US companies,” as opposed to dodging like the others, by saying it hasn't happened to them, so they can't say definitively. #TechXLaw https://twitter.com/...

• @nxthompson @nxthompson on x

  “It was overdue, it was messy, and it was unsatisfying. In other words, it was democracy, and I for one was glad to see it.” I agree with @CaseyNewton on this. https://www.getrevue.co/...

• @maxschleiffer Max Schleiffer on x

  “Apple arguably got off the lightest of any of the companies in today's hearing, if only by volume of questions: Tim Cook got just 35, compared to 59 for Bezos, 62 for Mark Zuckerberg, and 61 for Sundar Pichai” https://www.getrevue.co/...

• @politico @politico on x

  Jeff Bezos said Amazon is still investigating whether employees may have used data it acquires from its third-party sellers to launch competing products — an issue that has prompted allegations that the company misled House lawmakers a year ago https://www.politico.com/... https:…

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Very good ⁦@CaseyNewton⁩ on today's hearing, which I thought accomplished exactly what ⁦@davidcicilline⁩ wanted it to accomplish: lay out a pattern of behavior based on a huge amount of actual evidence. https://www.getrevue.co/... https://twitter.com/...

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  “In its lunatic whipsawing between companies, issues, and conspiracy theories, today's antitrust hearing resembled nothing so much as an endlessly scrolling social media feed. Every question shouted, every answer interrupted ... and very little learned.” https://www.getrevue.co/.…

• @renusatti Renu Satti on x

  .."In the end I'm left with the words of Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) as he ended the hearing. “The companies as they exist today have monopoly power,” he said. “Some need to be broken up. All need to be properly regulated.” https://twitter.com/...

• @housejudiciary House Judiciary Dems on x

  Documents from the Hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google” https://twitter.com/...

• @whatthebit Stefan Constantine on x

  So when I walk into a Walmart and see the Walmart potato chips are half the cost of the Lays potato chips, it's fine? And doesn't Walmart know exactly how many bags of potato chips they're selling, both from Lays and the house brand, since they have to keep track of inventory? ht…

• @karissabe Karissa Bell on x

  Zuckerberg also repeatedly said he didn't remember conversations around copying/trying to acquire Snapchat and Instagram https://www.engadget.com/...

• @anniegaus Annie Gaus on x

  The @HouseJudiciary is dropping docs in their feed that members are referencing (e.g. Amazon's plot to destroy Diapers dot com, which involved incurring a $200M loss to undercut prices 👇) https://twitter.com/...

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  Bezos: “We are very focused on the customer.” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon: “I'm also focused on the customers in my district.”

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Bezos says “diapers is a very large product category, sold in many places.” Scanlon is not letting him filibuster, says predatory practices weren't unique. Bezos says he doesn't remember the email she's mentioning.

• @jacknicas Jack Nicas on x

  The CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon were just asked if they believe China steals technology from U.S. firms. Cook: We haven't experienced it. Pichai: Neither have we. Zuckerberg: Yes, absolutely. Bezos: I've read that. https://twitter.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  this hearing, starting now, has been long in the making. that's @linamkhan sitting to Cicciline's right. Khan has been very much a part of working towards the inquiry today. “Simply put, they have too much power.” — Rep. @davidcicilline https://twitter.com/...

• @juliaangwin Julia Angwin on x

  Market share claims by tech CEOs: Facebook: We have tons of competition. Amazon: we have less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market. Apple: We don't have a dominant position in any market. Google: No comment.

• @eff @eff on x

  Sundar Pichai of Google spoke of Google's commitment to privacy and competition. But Google has abused the web standards bodies to retroactively rubber-stamp the technology that it's already deployed. https://www.eff.org/...

• @gruber John Gruber on x

  Staging notes: Bezos's is the best. Good camera, nice background. Cook: Deliberately plain. As soon as you look away you'll forget everything about it. Pichai: Careful and neat, which seems reflective of his personality. Zuck: Camera too close, feels a bit faux casual.

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Cicilline wrapping this up. “This hearing has made one fact clear to me: these companies have monopoly power. Some need to be broken up, all need to be regulated.” Says Zuck, Cook, Pichai, and Bezos are the new Rockefellers and Carnegies.

• @gruber John Gruber on x

  Jim Jordan: “Mr. Cook, is the cancel culture mob dangerous?” Now he's reading from Bari Weiss's open resignation letter from Apple. No, wait, she resigned from the New York Times. Seriously, Jim Jordan ought to have his car keys taken away.

• @iamjohnburnett John Burnett on x

  Two issues: freedom of competition and freedom of speech. #BigTech doesn't want to just dominate the sandbox—they want to own the sandbox to play alone. ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ #BigTechHearing #Amazon Apple #Facebook #Google https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @peteharrisonnyc @peteharrisonnyc on x

  Things we're gonna hear: - electeds who have no idea about tech or frankly markets - misleading market share data from CEOs that know they're running monopolies - platitudes about small biz (from both) - China bashing and fear mongering - fake anti-conservative bias outrage https…

• @eff @eff on x

  Today, Congress is having a hearing with the CEOs of Apple, Alphabet (parent of Google), Amazon, and Facebook. During the testimony, a few things were said that need to be corrected. #BigTechHearing https://judiciary.house.gov/ ...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Watch for every tech CEO at this hearing to offer their market share of an unfathomably broad market. Zuckerberg, for instance, just noted that Facebook receives only 10% of *all advertising spending.*

• Vox Shirin Ghaffary on x

  The winners and losers from the Big Tech antitrust hearing

• @realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x

  If Congress doesn't bring fairness to Big Tech, which they should have done years ago, I will do it myself with Executive Orders. In Washington, it has been ALL TALK and NO ACTION for years, and the people of our Country are sick and tired of it!

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  What congress hopefully realized today is that there's no one size fits all “tech regulation”. Data privacy, marketplace dynamics, social media, and platform interoperability are entirely different topics and require completely different solves than typical antitrust tools.

• @housejudiciary House Judiciary Dems on x

  Documents from the Hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google” https://twitter.com/...

• @levynews Ari Levy on x

  Eric Yuan told me last year that the same buggy code he wrote for WebEx 2 decades ago is still running today https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Google, Amazon, and Facebook CEOs faced around 60 questions each. Apple CEO Tim Cook only faced 35 questions, avoiding bigger Qs over its App Store policies (tally via @Kellen_Browning) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @eff @eff on x

  Tim Cook said before the app store, software was distributed on “CDs [that] had to be shipped.” Apple didn't invent Internet distribution.

• @modestproposal1 Modest Proposal on x

  Reupping @benthompson : “The fact that Apple and Google have more questions than Amazon and Facebook is not an accident: as I detailed in that article they have much more significant antitrust issues. It will be interesting to see if that fact is recognized by the committee” http…

• @rontkim Ron T. Kim on x

  Big Tech has deceived the public long enough by hiding behind words like “innovation” or “smart growth” while monopolizing multiple markets and monetizing our private data. It's time to #BreakEmUP Let's start with #Amazon https://twitter.com/...

• @geoffreyfowler Geoffrey A. Fowler on x

  Here comes one of Zuck's big tech #BigLittleLies: Consumers have lots of choice! He said the fastest growing app is TikTok, and the most popular video service is YouTube. But how many Americans actually feel they could set up their social network effectively anywhere else?

• @joshuatopolsky Joshua Topolsky on x

  Mark Zuckerberg's statement is essentially: we need a monopoly or the Chinese will win https://www.inputmag.com/...

• @bengrubb Ben Grubb on x

  Watching from Australia and wondering why these CEOs bother when they are barely given any time to speak due to the five minute time slots each representative is given to ask questions. These hearings seem designed for theatrics and gotcha moments more than anything else https://…

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  So @tim_cook says: “We apply the [App Store] rules to all developers evenly.” hahahaha https://twitter.com/...

• @mims Christopher Mims on x

  whether your concern is market power or bias (the two things everyone on this committee seem most concerned about) this makes zero sense https://twitter.com/...

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  82 minutes in, and not a single question to the guy who owns the @washingtonpost Coincidence?

• @tonyromm Tony Romm on x

  The Post is doing live coverage of today's congressional hearing with the top execs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Tune in all day here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @castrotech Daniel Castro on x

  “Competition in ads — from Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Comcast and others — has helped lower online advertising costs by 40% over the last 10 years” - @sundarpichai https://docs.house.gov/...

• @richardjnieva Richard Nieva on x

  I wrote about Congress zeroing in on Google, which of the four companies in the one in most danger of imminent antitrust action https://www.cnet.com/...

• @johannesreck Johannes Reck on x

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies at the Congressional Antitrust hearings that the company faces “strong competition” in travel. This is simply not true and a slap in the face for anyone working in the industry 👇 https://docs.house.gov/...

• @file411 @file411 on x

  Mr. Sundar Pichai Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet Inc. full disclosure I'm completely biased and I don't like how google has weaponized Location Services again I'll dissect after COB https://docs.house.gov/... https://twitter.com/...

• @andrewrsorkin Andrew Ross Sorkin on x

  To @sundarpichai: Amazon refuses to sell your Google Home products because they compete with its own Echo line of devices. Do you think Amazon has gained its huge share of the U.S. smart speakers fairly? Separately, did Google+ fail because of Facebook's dominance of the space?

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  NEW: Here are the documents the House obtained about Facebook's purchase of Instagram — including Zuckerberg's discussion about “neutralizing a competitor” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @alecstapp @alecstapp on x

  A lot of hindsight bias regarding Facebook's acquisition of Instagram. Today, everyone thinks it was obvious that Instagram was going to become a huge business. But that's not what people were saying back in 2012 when Instagram had 30 million users and zero revenue. https://twitt…

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Rep Jayapal: “Do you copy your competitors?” Zuckerberg: “We've certainly adopted features...” A Facebook employee who just texted me: “We're literally copying TikTok right now.”

• @superwuster Tim Wu on x

  How FB monopolized social by buying instagram : “There are network effects around social products and a finite number of different social mechanics to invent. Once someone wins at a specific mechanic, it's difficult for others to supplant them” MZuckerberg https://www.theverge.co…

• @superwuster Tim Wu on x

  I've been saying for years that Facebook's Instagram acquisition was a facially obvious violation of the Sherman Act. These emails prove it https://www.theverge.com/...

• @ajs Alyson Shontell on x

  If you've ever wondered how a startup founder mulls a gigantic acquisition offer in real time, these text messages between Instagram's Kevin Systom and his investor Matt Cohler are incredible reading https://judiciary.house.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  EXCLUSIVE: We have the internal Facebook emails where Zuckerberg discussed buying Instagram to “neutralize a competitor.” The emails are being discussed in the hearing now. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @richardhanania Richard Hanania on x

  This reminds me of when people complain every time Jeff Bezos makes another billion. If you think he's inevitably going to get richer and there's no risk, you can invest in Amazon stock and make money with him! https://twitter.com/...

• @kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x

  Ignore Zuckerberg at your own risk... https://twitter.com/...

• @competitionprof Nicolas Petit on x

  I advise everyone to watch this. If Facebook recognised Instagram's commercial potential agst the grain, should not accept this as special case of superior foresight, business acumen and vision 1/n https://twitter.com/...

• @wyntermitchell @wyntermitchell on x

  Explains why he abhors TikTok, he wants it! https://twitter.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  This is the very definition of anticompetitive behavior. If advertisers want to know why @facebook has no respect for their requests to rid the platform of hate and disinformation, this is why. Zuckerberg knows there's almost nowhere else for them to go. #StopHateForProfit https:…

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom: “Will he go into destroy mode if I say no?” Investor Matt Cohler: “Probably. (and probably also if we just don't engage at all.)” https://judiciary.house.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @mattrosoff Matt Rosoff on x

  Fascinating text exchange between Kevin Systrom (Instagram founder) and Matt Cohler (investor) about selling Insta to Facebook: https://judiciary.house.gov/ ...

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on x

  This is true. But this is also... how the tech industry has always worked. And again shows how new competition keeps popping up. https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  I am SHOCKED that gambling is going on in this venue https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Correction @RMac18 aka The Fake Rock: COPIED https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  I'd love to see the source material Jayapal was drawing on that says Systrom feared Zuckerberg would go into “destroy mode” if he didn't sell. I assume it's in some of the documents the subcommittee has compiled in its investigation, but I haven't seen it published anywhere.

• @robaeprice Rob Price on x

  Mark Zuckerberg argued to Congress that Facebook is not a monopoly. In 2012, Facebook boasted that it comprises “95% of all social media in the US.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  There it is. The loss of credibility for any of these CEOs, particularly and already Zucka @ Facebook, brings additional risk as their employee base evaluates the authenticity of their testimony. Stock rewards only go so far when democracy is at play. https://twitter.com/...

• @kimlacapria Kim LaCapria on x

  Facebook also maybe sorta did this with independent fact-checking, remember when it existed and thrived independent of Facebook's influence? and now ... https://twitter.com/...

• @brooklynmarie Brooke Binkowski on x

  Companies like these are always baffled by those who are not entirely motivated by money https://twitter.com/...

• @sengianaris Sen. Mike Gianaris on x

  Never really a doubt that #BigTech is anti-competitive but they sure are brazen about it. Time for our laws to catch up, at both federal and state levels. https://twitter.com/...

• @hshaban Hamza Shaban on x

  we have “certainly adapted features” a new clone feature brought to you by Instagram, a Facebook company.

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Has Facebook ever threatened to clone a product while trying to acquire it? asks Jayapal. As Zuck starts to deny it, she reminds him he's under oath and reminds him he threatened Kevin Systrom during IG deal. Ice-cold.

• @protocol @protocol on x

  The charge against Facebook is becoming increasingly clear. It's just this: You are too big. None of the details matter, because you are too big and have too much power and too much control over how people live their lives online.

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  “WhatsApp was also both a competitor and complementary,” Zuckerberg says. “They competed with us in the area of social messaging which is an important space.” Zuckerberg has now said under oath that both WhatsApp and Instagram were competitors

• @lizzadwoskin Elizabeth Dwoskin on x

  2014 email from FB CFO describes acquisition strategy as “a land grab”

• @drdenagrayson Dr. Dena Grayson on x

  #Facebook is MUCH bigger than Bell telephone was, when it was broken up.🧐 #breakupbigtech #BreakupFacebook #DeleteFacebook https://twitter.com/...

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Here's my favorite little detail from this story: https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @emmavigeland Emma Vigeland on x

  Just admitting to anti-trust violations in print because he knows he'll face no consequences. Remember how railroad monopolies ended? Corporations have so thoroughly purchased our government that no one even thinks to blink at the current monopolies crushing multiple industries. …

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  “Just to clarify, when I wrote ‘neutralize a competitor’ in a discoverable medium, I certainly did not mean ‘prevent a competitor from competing with us.’”

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Zuckerberg: “One reason people underestimate the importance of watching Google is that we can likely just always buy any competitive startups. But it'll be a while before we can buy Google.” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mishaalrahman Mishaal Rahman on x

  ""Google+ is a red herring,...We are getting distracted by a shitty clone while guys like Instragram and Pinterest ramp up and create new markets that we should've seen coming."" OOF Source: https://www.theverge.com/...

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Zuckerberg: “In the space of mobile photos and camera apps, which was growing, they were a competitor.” Nadler cites a document where Zuckerberg tells Facebook's CFO that they needed to buy time by buying Instagram.

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Nadler says that the documents Facebook provided showed Zuckerberg thought Instagram was a threat and wanted to buy it to quash the competition.

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Nadler says “this is exactly the type of anticompetitive acquisition that antitrust laws were intended to prevent” Cicilline says the failures of the FTC in 2012 have no bearing on whether this was a violation of antitrust laws

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  The CYA in email #4 is pretty remarkable. https://twitter.com/...

• @asankin Aaron Sankin on x

  Rep. Nadler asks Zuck about the Instagram acquisition. Nadler reads from internal emails where Zuck called IG “a threat,” “destructive,” and something that could “meaningfully hurt Facebook.” Zuck insists the $1b acquisition was mainly about building out mobile expertise.

• @nxthompson @nxthompson on x

  That last question is a huge one. Google and Apple have huge secret data troves from Android and IOS users. Amazon from its marketplace and (maybe) AWS. Facebook has bought access to similar data. This gives them huge opportunities to identify and crush competitors.

• @adrjeffries Adrianne Jeffries on x

  Rep. Jim Jordan: “I'll just cut to the chase: big tech is out to get conservatives.” Waiting for him to tie this back to antitrust.

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Rep Cicilline: Why did millions see COVID disinformation video? Zuck: Congressman, a lot of people shared that (Exactly)

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  “I'd like to just remind you that you are under oath.” @RepJayapal fresh off of grilling and destroying AG Barr goes after Mark Zuckerberg today. She is one of the most vital, effective and important members of the House right now. https://twitter.com/...

• @rephankjohnson Rep. Hank Johnson on x

  .@JeffBezos @amazon has a significant problem w/ counterfeit products that are misleading and dangerous. Why don't the customers & companies who depend on your platform deserve a guarantee that everything bought & sold on your platform is authentic? https://www.youtube.com/...

• @eff @eff on x

  Zuckerberg promised Congress that automated filtering would let Facebook block COVID misinformation and stop hate speech at scale. Zuckerberg is fond of claiming AI will fix all Facebook's problems, but we know it won't suffice to protect free expression: https://www.eff.org/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  I know it's a popular view but Cicilline is wrong that Facebook keeps hate speech and misinfo primarily because it's engaging. To the extent they keep it, it's because: (a) moderation is expensive, and (b) the GOP keeps pressuring them to keep it, including in this hearing.

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Cicilline asks Zuck if he has a responsibility to remove harmful lies from Facebook. “I do not believe we have any incentive to have this content on our platform,” says Zuck, which Cicilline rejects. “Except it's often the most engaging,” he says.

• @cnet @cnet on x

  Congress asked Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg why Donald Trump Jr. was suspended on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• @gruber John Gruber on x

  Rep. Scanlon kills it: (a) skewers Jim Jordan and sets him off, (b) asks pointed questions of Amazon's predatory pricing.

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  Beginning to think we might not get a robust 21st century antitrust framework out of this hearing.

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Sensenbrenner says he wouldn't take hydroxychloroquine but that it's. a legitimate matter of discussion, and asks Zuck about taking down Donald Trump Jr's account being taken down. Zuck reminds him that that happened on Twitter, not Facebook. SIGH

• @stevenlevy Steven Levy on x

  Jordan launches an attack on the First Amendment in attempt to make economic anti-trust hearing into a misinformation protection rally.

• @cnbc @cnbc on x

  “Who do Americans trust more than Amazon to do the right thing? Only their doctors and the military,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_koebler Jason Koebler on x

  The most powerful people in the world are here telling us they came from nothing and thus should be allowed to make sure everyone else comes from nothing, too https://www.vice.com/...

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Bezos says “counterfeits are a huge problem” and that Amazon works to keep third-party counterfeits off the site as well. Johnson brings up PopSockets again, which Bezos calls “unacceptable.”

• @markwarner Mark Warner on x

  I'm glad the House Judiciary Committee called their hearing today. It's important we inspect these companies and their business practices - and ensure that they aren't unfairly disadvantaging competition and harming consumers. https://twitter.com/...

• @shiraovide Shira Ovide on x

  Yes, there is messy noise in this hearing. But we've come a long way from “Senator, we sell ads.” There are thoughtful questions mostly all the way around about how these tech companies do what they do, and whether it's fair.

• @reuters @reuters on x

  ‘What began as 500 apps is now more than 1.7 million, only 60 of which are Apple software,’ Apple CEO Tim Cook told a congressional hearing via videoconference $APPL https://twitter.com/...

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  Questioner: Why did you remove those apps Cook? Cook: We were concerned about kids privacy and security. Questioner: Ok, moving on. (This particular line of questioning is bonkers.)

• @dhh @dhh on x

  Cook trying to say that Random House's app getting rejected was because “maybe it didn't work right”, even as a quote from Eddie Cue was JUST READ saying that Apple's power to reject Random House's app was instrumental in getting them into the iBook store, is just 🤯

• @jason @jason on x

  brilliant from @tim_cook: we don't have a dominant market share in any category. True! *If* you are counting users/units. Not true if you look at the DOLLARS made from smartphones and the App store... in that case, @Apple Apple does have the lead position!

• @stroughtonsmith Steve Troughton-Smith on x

  @gruber I feel like blocking a publisher's app on the iOS App Store (where Apple has 100% market share) to force them onto and bolster the iBookstore is a very valid thing to flag as problematic

• @gruber John Gruber on x

  @stroughtonsmith Do we know anything about their app? I'm guessing it wasn't blocked on arbitrary grounds but because they were trying to sell their own books in the app, which is clearly against the rules.

• @joshuatopolsky Joshua Topolsky on x

  Oh you're going after APPLE on books?