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Apple CEO takes stand in Epic Games antitrust trial, maintains ignorance of App Store profits

By Mike Swift, Amy Miller and Michael Acton
  • 21 May 2021 14:08
  • 27 May 2021 02:49
Tim Cook refused to acknowledge that Apple tracks the exact profitability of the iOS App Store, and professed to not know the exact amount Google pays to be the default search engine on iPhone, as the Apple chief executive took the witness stand today in its antitrust trial against Epic Games

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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