Reuters reports, “Some critics have called for measures to force Apple to make the music it sells on its online iTunes music store compatible with mp3 music players, other than its own iPods.”
“‘Before we jump in to regulate competition on the market it is worth asking whether competition is actually harmed,’ the Commission’s director general for competition, Philip Lowe, said at an antitrust conference in Munich, Germany,” Reuters reports.
Reuters reports, “Lowe, the second-highest competition official in the EU asked, ‘Is there not vigorous competition between different bundles of mp3 players and music libraries?'”
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