Pursuits
Apple’s Jobs, Aggressive Then Frail, Looms Large at Trial
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Jurors were presented this week with two images of Steve Jobs -- one deriding competitors as hackers, the other failing to recall those details -- as they consider evidence about whether Apple Inc. broke the law by refusing to open the iPod to rival music downloads.
A federal jury in Oakland, California, yesterday saw a thin, pale and graying Jobs say in testimony videotaped six months before his death that he didn’t recall drafting a press release in 2004 likening RealNetworks Inc. to a hacker after it released a software program for buying songs that would run on the iPod.