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Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov Don't count your chickens just yet. The judge (apparently) accepted Apple Computer's argument that an iPod is simply a data storage device. In my view that is eminently appealable on the grounds when was the last time you saw a Zip drive with headphones? |
Why choose a zip drive as your archetypal data storage device? Part of the concept of a data storage device is to be able to retrieve the data, and if the data is music, then the set of headphones is just a retrieval mechanism, like the Firewire or USB interface.
Besides, as Ducasi points out, did the case really hinge on the iPod? Surely not - since I can download from iTunes and create a CD or use my PC to play back the music - uses to which Apple Corp to exception equally.