“Apple’s top executives are scheduled to take the stand Thursday in the ongoing iPod antitrust trial, with $1 billion in damages hanging in the balance,” Josh Lipton and Dawn Giel report for CNBC.
“The schedule of witnesses include Eddy Cue, who oversees iTunes, and is expected to testify about the tech giant’s competition,” Lipton and Giel report. “Following his testimony, Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of marketing, will testify about sales and pricing of iPods.”
“A video deposition from the late Steve Jobs will also be shown to jurors, though that evidence will likely be presented Friday,” Lipton and Giel report. “The case centers around an iPod update in 2006. After that change, music from rivals like RealNetworks wouldn’t play on Apple devices.”
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Dang it, Tim…just fold on that encryption and all this will stop!
Bot, oh Bot. I know you’re being sarcastic.
The fact is that Apple’s thorough encryption is entirely legal and is exactly what the vast majority of Apple fanatics want. What #MyStupidGovernment wants is to destroy the US Constitution. I say: Protect and defend the Constitution of the United States or LOSE IT. I’ll the Constitution, thank you. Otherwise, I’m entirely happy to help catch the bad guys BY OTHER MEANS.
Ahem to self: I’ll KEEP the Constitution, thank you…
these are the times that try men’s sarcasm.
Wit is sharper than the rapier! En garde ye nitwit despoilers of freedom!
Always a joy to read you two. Keep dishing out the common sense Derek.
I try. We actually have a very good circle of members here who contribute to the saner whole. You of course included! 😀
The case centers around an iPod update in 2006. After that change, music from rivals like RealNetworks wouldn’t play on Apple devices.
How about a lawsuit about RealNetworks cracking Apple’s proprietary iPod code over and over and over in order to FORCE their store’s tuneage onto the iPod? There’s a CRIME for you! The rest of this is rubbish.
Hear, hear!
“…Eddy Cue… is expected to testify about the tech giant’s competition”
Why not have said competition testify for themselves as to why they hacked the iPod’s os to allow their software to work with it in a way never intended?