Former Itunes Engineer Testifies In Ipod Trial Says His Team Was Responsible For Blocking Music From Other Stores
Apple has been engaged in a lawsuit this week over what some deemed “anticompetitive” measures put into place in the iPod several years ago. Those measures essentially prevented users from playing back any music from third-party stores. Apple, for its part, has owned up to those actions, saying it did so to protect the user experience and the device from possible malicious files. Today a former engineer who worked on iTunes at the time testified that he was part of a team responsible for ensuring that music from all competing stores was blocked from working on the iPod....