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The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the iPod nano launch. [Reuters]
From 2007-2009, Apple deleted music that some iPod users downloaded from competing music services without telling those users, say attorneys in a class-action antitrust suit against Apple.
From the Wall Street Journal:
"You guys decided to give them the worst possible experience and blow up" a user's music library, attorney Patrick Coughlin said in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif.
When a user who had downloaded music from a rival service tried to sync an iPod to the user's iTunes library, Apple would display an error message and instruct the user to restore the factory settings, Coughlin said. When the user restored the settings, the music from rival services would disappear, he said.
Apple directed the system "not to tell users the problem," Coughlin said.
Apple Deleted Rivals' Songs from Users' iPods [wsj]
Emails sent by the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs have figured prominently in the trial. [Reuters]
