“Three years after his death, legendary Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs held a federal courtroom transfixed on Friday as attorneys played a video of his testimony in a class-action lawsuit that accuses Apple of inflating iPod prices by locking music lovers into using its players,” Brandon Bailey reports for The Associated Press.
“Jobs was pale and hoarse during the deposition that he gave a few months before his death in 2011,” Bailey reports, “but spoke firmly in defense of Apple Inc.’s software, which blocked music from stores that competed with Apple’s iTunes store.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s criminal that Steve had to waste even one second of the time he had left on such ambulance-chasing stupidity.
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