Norway's consumer mediator today threatened to take US electronics manufacturer Apple before a government agency for failing to make its online iTunes store compatible with music players other than its iPod.
"A large part of the music in the iTunes store can still not be used by devices other than the iPod," the ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon said in a statement.
In 2006, Norway was among the first countries in the world to insist that Apple break the exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store. Apple has added several instructions to its user conditions, explaining to consumers how to burn songs onto compact discs and then convert them to the MP3 format so they can be played on other devices, "but that's not enough", the mediator said.
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