Steve jobs will otsudit Apple $350 million
1 of the richest companies in the world Apple continuously with someone sues. For anybody not a secret that the "Apple" of the Empire often takes other people's ideas and accumulates them to such an extent that they become perfect.
Another lawsuit, the largest in the history of the IT industry, begins in California. This time at stake $ 350 million that Apple can save Steve jobs.
Really complaints were filed back in 2005, but the process resumed only at the moment. A group of plaintiffs convinced that the law was violated with the iPod. The thing is that with this device it was possible to listen to music downloaded only in iTunes, or filled with CDS. The files were protected special DRM-key, which was repealed in 2009. According to prosecutors, these protective measures were aimed at the extermination of the competition and creating a monopoly in the segment of portable music.
California ready Tribunal to consider complaints on behalf of consumers, iPod Classic, iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch and iPod Nano, filed in the period from September 12, 2006 to March 31, 2009. According to some, in fact, wound up on the "Apple" of the company, contains more than 900 claims, covering about 10 years. Most of them says that these actions by the iPhone maker has not only hampered healthy competition, but also significantly increased the cost of iPod owners.
Surprisingly, the main evidence in the trial are considered e-mail messages of Steve jobs. Lawyers say that they are evidence that indicates that Apple meant to crush their own rivals and establish a monopoly in the field of digital music.
According to the American press, Apple threw all their forces to protect their own interests. As witnesses in court expect the Executive Directors of the company, Phil Schiller and eddy cue. "Apple" the company will be pushing for the fact that she had a right to protect their own musical activities from rivals, and users only won from this, as the cost of the iPod has declined steadily for many years, say correspondents. With all this in just the last 3 months no one needs an iPod made a profit in the amount of $ 2.6 million.
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