Apple removed songs from iPods without telling customers
Dec04
Music is incredibly personal. What we like says so much about us and acts as a roadmap of our lives with songs attached to moments. So when a company removes some of those songs from a device because they are from a rival, it’s kind of a big deal. The Wall Street Journal reports that between 2007 and 2009, Apple deleted music from users’ iPods that originated from competing digital music services. It didn’t just remove the music, instead it produced an error message that instructed users to restore their iPod when music from rival services was detected. Once the restore…
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