Thanks to technology, the late Steve Jobs will be able to testify in this month’s court hearings in a decade-old class-action suit on iPods.
The late Steve Jobs.
Good thing he won’t be rising from the dead to do so. Instead, Jobs' emails and videotaped deposition from April 2011, just months before his death, will be called into play.
This month Apple is facing its third major antitrust lawsuit since Jobs’ death in 2011. According to CNN, “the plaintiffs allege that Apple engaged in antitrust behavior by not allowing music sold in other digital stores to play on iPods, specifically iPods sold from 2006 to 2009”. (CNN has a full transcript of the video tape.)
Even though the software is no longer used, the plaintiffs are arguing that it inflated the prices of millions of iPods sold during those years.
The plaintiffs are looking to acquire $350 million in the lawsuit but Apple could end up coughing up three times that amount depending on what the jury decides.
Opening statements will begin Tuesday morning in a Federal courtroom in Oakland, CA.
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