As the situation reveals, Apple may be in thick soup. Department of Justice’s investigation is going to go deeper than just digital music. There seems to be a list of anti-trust compilations building up against Apple. Adobe’s cross compilation ban is only one of the many points scored by Apple.
There are reports that Apple may have pressured Sony Music Entertainment and EMI to stop participating in a special discount promotion offered by Amazon, one of Apple’s leading competitors in digital music. As Billboard magazine reports,
“Representatives of Apple’s iTunes music service were asking the labels not to participate in Amazon’s promotion, adding that Apple punished those that did by withdrawing marketing support for those songs on iTunes.“
The Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead with a separate investigation of Apple’s rules for developers who create applications for the iPhone operating system. This is in response to the Adobe cross-compiler issue.
The Department of justice has also reportedly been investigating improper hiring practices at Apple, of which Intel, I.B.M. and Google are also targets.
With several media giants are turning their backs on retooling their content to make them iPad friendly, issue gets more cause to draw attention into Apple’s strategies. Also with tons of contribution coming in for the department of justice, it looks like a tough one to dodge, for Apple.
Read more at New York Times.
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