Steve Jobs’ Emails Live On As Evidence

In two pending trials, evidence provided by Steve Jobs will play an important role, writes Brian X. Chen in the New York Times. The first trial, scheduled to begin this month, is an antitrust action alleging that an older iPOD was designed so as not to play music from iTunes Store competitors. The second, scheduled for April, is a major employment-related antitrust class action in which Apple and five other high-tech companies are accused of conspiring to avoid recruiting each other’s employees as a way of keeping wages down. Some of Jobs’ blunt emails include litigation threats and financial promises to potential partners and make him “an exceptional witness against his own company, even beyond the grave,” the Times article notes.