Dec 18, 2020 12:30:00

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Senior Vice President Craig Federighi appear in court with Epic Games

By Austin Community College

Apple CEO

Tim Cook and Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi have decided to appear in court with Epic Games.

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In August 2020, Epic Games launched 'EPIC' to avoid the '30% of sales' fee charged by Apple's App Store when distributing its game ' Fortnite ' on iOS. We have introduced a payment method called 'Direct Payment' that does not go through the App Store. However, Apple has removed Fortnite for iOS from the App Store, saying this is a violation of the App Store terms. In response, Epic Games sued Apple for 'anti-competitive behavior.'

'Fortnite' developer Epic Games sues Apple-GIGAZINE

Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi have decided to appear in the Apple-Epic Games trial. Apple is obliged to submit various documents such as survey results comparing the prices of the App Store and other platforms, and it is because Cook CEO and Federighi were appointed to be responsible for this submitted document. is.

Regarding this decision, Apple called on Cook to limit his swearing time to four hours and to replace Federighi with Eric Neuenswander, who is second only to Federighi, but the court said. 'CEO Cook is obliged to appear in court until Epic Games receives all the necessary documents from Apple.' 'It is believed that Federighi was involved in more decisions on this issue,' he dismissed both requests. ..

On the other hand, some of Apple's emails contain hyperlinks to the internal cloud base, and Epic Games claims that 'all the information it needs is inaccessible' and all hyperlinks. I was asked to submit the data, but the court dismissed it as 'too much work'. However, Apple does not have to submit all the data, but it was said that if the number is reasonable, it should submit hyperlinked data.

Apple and Epic Games are preparing for a jury trial after July 2021 by requesting documents from each other.