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Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 13, 2014 @06:46AM from the our-way-or-the-error-message-way dept.

loftarasa (1066016) writes Yesterday, former engineer Rob Schultz unwillingly testified in court against Apple that he worked on project 'Candy' which 'intended to block 100% of non-iTunes clients' from 2006 to 2007. In his opinion, the work of his team contributed to create 'market dominance' for the iPod. Apple argues, and Schultz agrees, that its intentions were to improve iTunes, not curb competition.

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Re: So much for his career by Karlt1 · 2014-12-13 12:08 · Score: 3, Informative

Steve Jobs posted the following to the home page of Apple back in 2007 when everyone was clamoring for Apple to license FairPlay....
"If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music."