Verizon Wireless makes canceling contracts up to $70 more expensive – Ars Technica
Ars TechnicaVerizon Wireless makes canceling contracts up to $70 more expensiveArs TechnicaStandard Verizon ETFs of $175 apply to customers who sign two-year contracts with subsidized basic phones and tablets, including iPads. Previously, the $175 ETF declined $5 each month from the beginning. Going forward, the $175 fee will decline "$5 per …Verizon's early termination fee is now up to $70 more expensive for new customers9 to 5 Mac (blog)T-Mobile repellent: Verizon just made it more expensive for you to switch carriersBGRall 19 news articles »
Apple Secretly Deleted iPod Owners' Songs Downloaded From Competing Music Services (Macrumors)
Between 2007 and 2009, Apple stealthily deleted content that iPod owners had downloaded from rival music services, reports _The Wall Street Journal_. The information came to light during an ongoing class action iPod lawsuit that Apple is fighting in court this week, where the Cupertino company is accused of having violated antitrust law by locking its original iPods to the iTunes ecosystem.
According to plaintiff attorney Patrick Coughlin, a user who downloaded music from a competing music service to iTunes and then tried to sync the content to an iPod would receive a nondescript error message. The vague message would advise the iPod owner to restore the device to its factory settings, deleting the music that had been downloaded from a rival service and preventing it from being played.
Apple security director Augustin Farrugia defended the vague error message, stating that Apple didn't want to "confuse users" by providing them with too much information. Farrugia also said the company's efforts to delete music acquired from third-party sources was done in an effort to protect consumers from hackers and malicious content.
Yesterday, lawyers for the plaintiffs shared both a videotaped deposition and emails written by Steve Jobs as evidence …
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