Tech giant Apple offered a discount to e-commerce firm
Amazon in order for the Prime Video app to launch on Apple’s iPhones. This was
revealed by documents that are part of an ongoing congressional antitrust
investigation, according to Bloomberg.

The documents show a November 2016 email exchange
between Apple’s senior vice president Eddy Cue and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Apple,
which usually receive 30% revenue share, offered to charge only 15% from
Amazon’s Prime Video app subscriptions.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testified during an ongoing
congressional antitrust investigation on Wednesday.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, during Wednesday’s hearing, said
the company charges 30% from developers’ subscriptions during their first year,
but that drops to 15% after that time period.

The tech giant has been accused of treating developers
differently and some developers have said Apple’s rates have made it difficult
to compete with the company.

Cook denied the accusation and said, “We treat
every developer the same.”

The document is among the many submitted to Congress
from Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon as part of an ongoing antitrust
investigation. They show the cutthroat business strategies employed by the Big
Four to stave off competitors and grow into the tech titans we know them to be
today.