Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Apple’s been hit with antitrust lawsuits by the dominance of the iPod / iTunes system before, but there’s a new case brewing down California way that argues not that Apple has illegally tied the iPod to iTunes, but that Apple has abused its dominant market position by not supporting WMA. That’s right, we’ve come full circle — Apple is

now being accused of locking Microsoft out of the market. The case, brought by San Diego attorney Stacie Somers, claims that since Apple disables the WMA functionality of the PortalPlayer chip inside many iPods, it’s shipping “crippleware,” and that it’s doing so intentionally to abuse its position as the market leader. Of course, unprotected WMA files import into iTunes on Windows just fine, so that is really […]

Orginal post by Nilay Patel