Emails released as part of Congress' antitrust hearing show how ruthless Steve Jobs could be (AAPL)

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• Newly released emails from Steve Jobs show how ruthless he could be.
• In one of the emails, made public by a Congressional subcommittee investigating antitrust concerns, Jobs advised subordinates to "cut off" a developer.
• In another email message, Jobs said Apple's iBooks bookstore was going to be the only digital books marketplace on iPhones and iPads. 
• The messages are sure to add to concerns that Apple is using its control over its App Store to throttle rivals and boost its own apps.
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You could use a lot of adjectives to describe Steve Jobs: innovative, visionary, charismatic. But on the short-list of those words would have to be ruthless, as new email messages made public Wednesday made clear yet again.

Jobs — who died in October 2011, but was the founder and previous CEO of Apple — instructs subordinates in the emails to "cut off" a developer who publicly criticized the company, force developers of subscription-based apps to use Apple's payment service, and block any other company from offering a digital bookstore for Apple's iPhones and iPads unless they gave Apple a cut of their revenue.

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