The related case against antitrust Apple does not seem to be in very good direction for the Cupertino. Former engineer iTunes Rod Schultz said yesterday that he had worked on a project to block "100% of customers who are not iTunes", while maintaining any third party software away from iTunes, according to The Wall Street Journal. According to the applicants, this was done against the competition to increase prices iPods from 2006 to 2009. Despite the efforts of the applicants were not able to present as evidence a 20012 academic work by Schultz in detailing the operating systems Apple blocked so they could not use iTunes (Linux, as insurance will be imagining).
WSJ notes that the Schultz himself confirmed outside the courtroom that the early work of his team were necessary for the protection of digital copyright, but eventually these measures eventually making it easier to get the iPod dominate the market. Apple meanwhile clings to safety measures were in charge of protecting the user experience, something which they say could have been prejudiced if they allowed other audio formats or other transmission media. Schultz was the last witness present at the event, so we must be attentive to the valuations of the jury and see if finally the fine of $ 350 million just three times.
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