Imagine if you owned a media device and the company that produced that device admitted they stole some of your content and deleted it from your device without telling you. Would you give them a free pass and cite, "genuine product improvements" if they claimed that the move was a necessary security measure to protect you from malware? That's what a "jury of peers" determined in the recent anti-trust lawsuit against Apple.
For years now, Apple has been embroiled in a lawsuit that they didn't instigate for a change. This time, the Cupertino company was being sued for anti-competitive practices designed to make it harder to use anyone else's stuff but theirs. Specifically, Apple was accused of implementing practices against competing digital music stores. It did this by restricting the songs that users could upload to their iPods to only those songs ripped from CDs or bought from iTunes.
It later even publicly admitted that it did this by removing songs from people's iPods without even informing them. It claimed that this was done as a security measure in order to protect users from harmful or malicious content. Apparently, the jury in the case bought this feeble argument "hook-line-and-sinker." They let them off "Scott-free," reasoning that what Apple did was “genuine product improvements” and was not anticompetitive at all.
Well... we do live in a world where "Flappy Birds" was the number 6 most searched for thing on Google in all of 2014... {feel free to roll your eyes now}
Source: Twitter
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