Judge gives go-ahead for Steve Jobs deposition in iTunes antitrust case

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24 points·anderzole··5 comments

iTunes is Apple's IE. It's like a virus on the computer. You can't delete it (the instructions are 20 steps long: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1224). It's slow, clunky, and annoying. Even after you delete it Apple will pester you to update it.

Not much to do with anything, but every time I see "iTunes" I feel the need to vent. If there's any black eye in terms of Apple's pristine record of user experience, design, and execution, it's iTunes. But it does stick out like a sore thumb.

If anything, this article gives you an idea of the glacial pace of the legal system. This is almost a non-issue these days.

Granted, I suppose now the lawyers will argue that these tactics gave Apple the upper hand which secured their spot as the US's most valuable company.

"* I suppose now the lawyers will argue that these tactics gave Apple the upper hand* "

Uh, well, isn't that true?

My facetiousness didn't quite carry across in that last line. I think if it truly was a colossal inconvenience for the customer, you would have seen people stop buying iPods in droves.

On the contrary, if it was a colossal inconvenience for the customer to lose all their songs, they'd make sure you didn't upgrade your old iPod to a competing mp3 player. Sure, they happily bought the first generation iPod and weren't exactly distraught when that meant they'd have to replace it with another iPod, but then most consumers weren't shedding tears over being pushed into using Win 9x/IE in the 1990s.

Apple's defence of course is that the music industry compelled them to create a DRM format which was standard practice at the time.

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