Apple's trial with Epic has been over for almost two weeks, but that doesn't mean we aren't still learning interesting things about the world's most v

14 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Sent The Most Important Email in the History of Business | Inc.com

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2021-06-06 13:00:12

Apple's trial with Epic has been over for almost two weeks, but that doesn't mean we aren't still learning interesting things about the world's most valuable company. Largely, that's due to the volume of evidence that has made publicly available through testimony and documents.

One particularly interesting example is an email from 2007 between Steve Jobs, then the CEO of Apple, and Bertrand Serlet, the company's SVP of Software Engineering. It reveals a conversation about the things Apple needs to be able to accomplish in order to allow third-party apps on the iPhone.

Until that point, the iPhone only ran 16 apps pre-installed on every device. Jobs had famously said told developers that if they wanted to create apps for the iPhone, they could make web apps that ran in Safari.

"And guess what?" Jobs said. "There's no SDK that you need! You've got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we've got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today."