Epic’s interrogation of Apple App Store witness gets rocky start


The fight with Epic blew up in August when the game maker told customers it would replace Apple’s in-app purchase system with its own, circumventing Apple’s commissions from add-ons inside of Fortnite. Apple then removed the game, cutting off access for more than a billion customers. — Reuters

Epic Games Inc’s first chance to put Apple Inc on the defensive about its App Store at a high-stakes trial got off to a rocky start.

Epic’s lawyers opened their questioning of App Store chief Matt Fischer by dredging up a five-year-old email that quoted a colleague saying “Matt feels extremely strong about not featuring our competitors on the App Store”. But the quote wasn’t presented in its full context and Fischer quickly dismissed it as a misrepresentation.

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