{"id":31531,"date":"2021-02-04T21:27:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31531"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:14:25","slug":"tim-cook-to-be-deposed-for-epic-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/04\/tim-cook-to-be-deposed-for-epic-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook to Be Deposed for Epic Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/02\/02\/apple-tim-cook-7-hr-deposition-epic-lawsuit\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacRumors\/status\/1356566493354356736\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/02\/02\/apple-tim-cook-7-hr-deposition-epic-lawsuit\/\"><p>A judge presiding over preparatory hearings in the Apple vs. Epic Games court case has ruled that Apple CEO Tim Cook must attend a seven-hour long deposition to testify about how the company views App Store competition, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/court-orders-tim-cook-to-sit-for-7-hour-deposition-in-e-1846171956\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Hixon ordered Apple to make &ldquo;best efforts&rdquo; to produce internal payment-processing documents, after it criticized the company as &ldquo;frustrating and unsatisfactory&rdquo; in its attempts to stall their release to Epic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhh\/status\/1356312249619652609\">David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhh\/status\/1356312249619652609\"><p>Presumably Cook will have learned from the meltdown Gates famously had back in Microsoft&rsquo;s antitrust case. But that&rsquo;s still a long time to sit and answer questions on the logical pretzel that is your company&rsquo;s monopoly stances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/12\/epic-denied-preliminary-injunction-for-fortnite\/\">Epic Denied Preliminary Injunction for Fortnite<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick (tweet): A judge presiding over preparatory hearings in the Apple vs. Epic Games court case has ruled that Apple CEO Tim Cook must attend a seven-hour long deposition to testify about how the company views App Store competition, reports Gizmodo.[&#8230;]Hixon ordered Apple to make &ldquo;best efforts&rdquo; to produce internal payment-processing documents, after it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-02-05T02:28:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"576acb93-aaca-48c0-95dc-b4c1490db465","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-18T11:14:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AV2rLk6rKSMCV3LTBSQ20ZQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,91,38,1969,31,41,209,60],"class_list":["post-31531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-epic","tag-ios","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-timcook"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31532,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions\/31532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}