{"id":253962,"date":"2021-05-20T01:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-to-testify-friday-as-epic-trial-nears-end\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T01:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:04:18","slug":"apple-ceo-tim-cook-to-testify-friday-as-epic-trial-nears-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-to-testify-friday-as-epic-trial-nears-end\/","title":{"rendered":"#Apple CEO Tim Cook to testify Friday as Epic trial nears end"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#App<\/a>le CEO Tim Cook to testify Friday as Epic trial nears end<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the witness stand this Friday in a high-stakes courtroom battle over the lucrative commissions the iPhone maker has been raking in from its mobile app store.<\/p>\n

The timing of Cook\u2019s highly anticipated testimony was confirmed Wednesday when a federal judge granted Apple\u2019s request to allow the 60-year-old executive to be the first witness sworn in Friday morning during\u00a0a trial that has been unfolding\u00a0<\/a>in an Oakland, California, courtroom since the beginning of this month.<\/p>\n

The trial revolves around an antitrust lawsuit filed last year by Epic Game<\/a>s, the maker of the popular video game Fortnite.<\/p>\n

Epic is trying to prove that commissions ranging from 15 percent to 30 percent on transactions in apps installed on iPhones, iPads and iPods are part of a monopoly that Apple has created around a fortress blocking other payment options on its mobile devices.<\/p>\n

Apple has brushed off the allegations as a desperate attempt by Epic to boost its own profits by breaching a contract covering a system that requires a small portion of the 1.8 million apps in its store to pay the commissions on transactions. Apple says the commissions help it pay for the technology<\/a> powering its products, including the security and privacy protections that has helped make iPhone so popular.<\/p>\n

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Fortnite maker Epic Games has taken Apple to court over its App Store fees.<\/figcaption>
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Cook will be taking the stand as Apple prepares to wrap its case before the two sides make their closing arguments and answer U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers\u2019 questions about the evidence on Monday. His appearance also will serve as a sort of bookend to the testimony of Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, who took the stand for two days during the first two days of trial.<\/p>\n

The CEOs\u2019 testimony could be a study in contrasts. Cook has emerged as a polished, confident public speaker since inheriting his CEO job nearly a decade ago from Apple\u2019s late co-founder Steve Jobs. But Sweeney is far more soft-spoken, and often had to be asked to speak up during his testimony that\u00a0at times included statements\u00a0<\/a>that seemed to bolster Apple\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n

Cook will also have the advantage of listening to how Epic\u2019s lawyers have been grilling Apple executives who have been taking the stand. That list has included Phil Schiller, Apple\u2019s former marketing guru and a Jobs confidant who was on the stand Monday and Tuesday. Apple\u2019s software chief, Craig Federighi, took the stand Wednesday to discuss the various ways the company insulates its products from hackers.<\/p>\n

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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney (left) arrives at federal court in Oakland, Calif., earlier this month in the video game maker\u2019s antitrust lawsuit against Apple. <\/figcaption>
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The specter of Jobs is likely to be raised while Cook is on the stand, based on Epic\u2019s strategy in the so far. Epic lawyers have repeatedly referred back to Jobs\u2019 initial predictions that Apple wouldn\u2019t make much money from the app store when he unveiled it 13 years ago.<\/p>\n

Since then, the app store has become more successful than anyone envisioned and a major contributor to the profit growth that has helped give Apple its current market value of nearly $2.1 trillion. Just how much money Apple makes from the app store has remained a heated point of contention during the trial, although Schiller conceded during his testimony that the Cupertino, California, had pocketed at least $20 billion from it through June 2017, based on calculations from\u00a0figures publicly released<\/a>\u00a0as that time.\n <\/div>\n

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