The lawsuit in which Apple is accused of unfair competition when it blocked the playback of music on the iPod that did not come from its own iTunes Music Store hangs on a small detail
Apple's lawyers pointed out that two of the plaintiffs had not purchased an iPod during the period in question to which the examination of Apple's practices was limited, despite the fact that the case involves 8 million iPod, as the plaintiffs counter.
Before the trial, the two sides agreed that the period to which the proceedings would be limited would be from September 2006 to March 2009. After Marianna Rosen's testimony on Wednesday, Apple's lawyers filed an objection, arguing that based on the serial number of iPod Touch , the purchase had been made in July 2009. That same evening, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers received a letter in her office from Apple's lawyer, Walter Isaacson, informing her that another of the consumers who filed the lawsuit, Melanie Wilson, purchased her iPod outside the aforementioned time limit or, in another case, purchased a model that did not have the disputed version of the iTMS. The judge appeared particularly annoyed by the development in a case that has been pending for a decade and stated that she "cannot proceed without plaintiffs", demanded written statements from both sides on the continuation or interruption of the trial and reserved a quick response.
Apple is ordered to compensate 14 million iPod owners between 2005 and 2009 and pay up to $1 billion if it is proven that it used unfair practices to stifle competition in the then-new digital music market
Source: tech.in.gr
