Despite efforts from the Apple friendly trade press to play down the Department of Justice probe into Jobs' Mob's iTunes operations, it is starting to look as if an anti-trust case is almost certain to happen.
Early reports suggested that the DoJ had found "nothing wrong" with what Apple had done, but now the New York Post has found out that the Justice Department's probe of Apple is set to expand.
The DoJ has contacted a handful of the country's biggest media and technology companies to get their views on Apple.
For years Apple has cast itself as the little creative company, but more recently it has been dictating terms to industry. The demand that big media abandon Adobe might have been a push too far.
A Hollywood source told the Post that the DoJ is doing outreach. "You can't dictate terms to the industry. The Adobe thing is just inviting the wrath of everybody."
Other lines of inquiry focus on a dispute with Amazon and its ability to secure exclusive release deals with the labels.
The DoJ is also asking questions about the terms that Apple lays out for computer programmers who want to develop apps for the iPad.
If the inquiries turn into actual charges it is the sort of problem that Apple does not really want at the moment.
Several media giants are turning their backs on retooling their content to make them iPad friendly, favouring instead to use technology that gives the content as wide an exposure as possible.
The term "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. ]
Does this mean that the future of
Cloud computing may not be so rosy?
It never rains, but it pours!
"When you take
you gotta give
so live and let live and
let go oh oh oh oh
I beg your pardon
I never promised
you a rose garden"