The Plaintiff Lawyers tried a last minute "Hail Mary" play. . . They submitted briefs over the weekend accusing Apple and Amazon of colluding!
"Over the weekend, in court filings, the lawyers suing Apple added another accusation: that Apple and Amazon had colluded to make their products successful, while blocking their competitors.“Apparently Apple and Amazon had worked out an agreement and Amazon put Apple front and center in Amazon’s new service,” the plaintiff lawyers wrote in their filing.
Notably, in a separate antitrust case, a federal judge found Apple liable last year for colluding with book publishers to help them fight Amazon and its uniform pricing of $9.99 for new e-books.
Judge Gonzalez Rogers called the collusion assertion a “Hail Mary, last-ditch effort.”
“I find it offensive, frankly,” she said. She forbade the lawyers from presenting the idea of Apple and Amazon being in collusion to the jury.— Source BITS Blog NY Times — Lawyers in iPod Trial Await Jury Decision — December 15, 2014 — By BRIAN X. CHEN
The Attorney Plaintiff's must have just heard about the Amazon involvement in the e-Book case and conflated it in to this. . . SHEESH! There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE AT ALL OF SUCH AN AGREEMENT! Otherwise why was Amazon allowed to sell DRM free music nine months before Apple was allowed to????
The “plaintiffs” lost the suit. Jury finds in favor of Apple.