U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing

'After Random House finally agreed to a contract on Jan. 18, 2011, Eddy Cue, the Apple executive in charge of its e-books deals, sent an e-mail to Mr. Jobs attributing the publisher’s capitulation, in part, to “the fact that I prevented an app from Random House from going live in the app store,”'

Three years ago I gave up on iOS because I could no longer look the other way while Apple took control over which programs a user could and could not run. For me the last straw was the edict about the acceptable programming languages a program could be written in. However, over the years I get more and more confirmation that I was right about Apple.