Jeffrey L. Robbin is a vice president of consumer applications at Apple, Inc and lead software designer for iTunes. Apple Inc. ... This article is about the iTunes application. ...

Jeff worked for Apple in the 1990s as a system software engineer on their operating system project Copland, however the project was abandoned. After leaving Apple he developed a number of applications for the Macintosh including Conflict Catcher. He also worked with Bill Kincaid and Dave Heller to develop the SoundJam MP MP3 playing software, which was distributed through Casady & Greene. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... // An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ... Copland was a project at Apple Computer to create an updated version of the Macintosh operating system. ... Conflict Catcher was a popular utility software application for the Mac OS, published by Casady & Greene. ... SoundJam MP was an audio player for Macintosh operating system published by the now-defunct Casady & Greene. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Casady & Greene, founded in 1984 by Robin Casady, was a software publisher for shareware products compatible with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Casady designed fonts in the early days of desktop publishing. ...

In mid 2000 Apple was looking to purchase an MP3 player and approached a number of companies including Casady & Greene. Apple bought the rights to the software, hired Jeff and turned it into iTunes with Jeff as lead developer. [1]

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Although Jeff's role has been published in a number of articles that have disclosed his name and role, an October 17, 2005 article in TIME claimed that Steve Jobs had prohibited the magazine from publishing Robbin's last name, explaining that Steve was worried about competitors "poaching his talent".^{[citation needed]} is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “TIME” redirects here. ...

External links

• The True Story of SoundJam
• Straight Dope on the iPod's Birth