The Justice Dept.’s probe into Apple is expanding to include how the iPhone and iPad maker does business with media outfits in areas beyond music, The Post has learned.
According to several sources, the Justice Dept. has contacted a handful of the country’s biggest media and technology companies to get their views on Apple, الذي, after years of casting itself as the tiny outsider, has become an 800-pound gorilla calling the shots in several arenas.
“و [Justice Dept.] is doing outreach,” said one Hollywood industry source. “You can’t dictate terms to the industry. The Adobe thing is just inviting the wrath of everybody.”
Added a senior source at a media company: “If Apple thinks it’s going to increase its monopoly with the iPad, it should look at the history of other walled gardens.”
على المدى “walled gardens” refers to a service or technology that restricts access only to those using that service, as is the case with Apple’s iTunes, in which music can only be played on Apple devices or through iTunes itself.
With the iPad, Apple has been criticized by Big Media for banning Adobe’s Flash, the Web’s most popular video software, from being used on the device.
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