Order will see sick Steve Jobs hauled into court
Apple's poorly front man Steve Jobs has been ordered to appear in a Californian court to answer questions about iTunes.
Apple's media-mangling software, which comes pre-installed on all Macs and is pretty much essential if you want to use and of the company's mobile devices including the iPhone, iPad and various flavours of iPod, has come under fire in a class action suit which says it's unfair for Apple to insist that no-one else is allowed to install music on its gadgets.
The court case all points back to October 2004 when Apple forever locked an application called Harmony out of the iPod's walled garden. Realnetworks, which owned the software in question, says that Steve Jobs has unique first-hand knowledge of the shenanigans and, despite being in recuperation after a liver transplant last year, should be hauled into court to answer up to two hours of questioning.
