“Apple tried active iTunes competitors to fend off iPod”

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A former employee of Apple has in court said that he had the task to iTunes competitors to fend off iPods. Apple is for removing music from iPods a few years ago, to say to the user experience to ensure.

Rod Schultz worked years ago on a project to ensure that competitors of iTunes not had a chance to work with the iPod. That said the former employee, who as a witness was called in a lawsuit against Apple. The goal was to have all third party software block it: Apple could, as ‘the market’ to ensure, according to Schultz. Under the code name Candy, measures were taken to prevent competing software could sync with the iPod, says Schultz, who according to The Wall Street Journal against his sentence had to testify.

The statement is stressful in the lawsuit against Apple. The company is rightly so because in the period from 2006 to 2009, its dominant position would have used to the prices of iPods artificially high to keep. It went so far that the music was obtained outside of iTunes to recover deleted iPods.

A ceo of Apple had previously know that iTunes around 2008 “totally hacked”. The company would, with the measures the security and want to improve and the user experience want to ensure. Because there music from iPods was removed like the plaintiffs in damages. The requested amount is from on converted to 284 million euros, but can be tripled if the judge believes that Apple’s competition has hampered.