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Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:So much for his career by gnupun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    shady illegal practices after throwing his employer under the bus like this.

    How is blocking competitors from your platform shady or illegal? Does Windows support running Linux apps? No. If Real wanted to sell music, it should've built its own music player like the ipod and also an itunes equivalent. Why and how does it get the right to sell music on apple's music platform (itunes/ipod)?

  2. Re:So much for his career by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like the word monoploy better than monopoly. Makes it more intentional.