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days ago | link | parent  This is because it was Apple that
devised the Agency Model and was the first to propose it to the
Big Six publishers as a way of getting them on iOS.  "....which
I think is understating the role of the publishers, who would
have rejected it if it hadn't been very much in their own
interests."  Apple just gave them a better deal than the one
Amazon was willing to fight dirty to maintain.