A series of e-mails discovered and published by The Verge reveals that Apple repeatedly rejected Microsoft’s efforts to make its exclusive Xbox game titles available in the iOS App Store, even after Microsoft conceded to some of its conditions.
Last year, Microsoft had spent a long time trying to reason with Apple to allow Xbox games to be downloaded from the App Store, even going so far as to offer to make available some of its most popular Xbox-exclusive titles to iOS users, if Apple would collaborate.
This would have most certainly worked in Apple’s favor to rake in additional revenue, and would also have given iPhone and iPad users the convenience of being able to download some of the most popular games on any platform, right onto their favorite Apple device.
However, Apple had…
