Apparently The Fortnite Banana Man Is Important In The Epic V Apple Trial
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You know that moment where Phoenix Wright, apparently an ace attorney, decided to cross-examine a parrot in the first Ace Attorney game? Or the time where he accepted a case that would lead to him defending an orca in court? You know how everyone, from the players to the in-game characters themselves, noted how extremely silly all of that was?
Well, the Epic v Apple trial is continuing, with all sorts of ludicrous revelations about the games industry
and how lawyers work, and we re starting to think that Phoenix Wright wasn t that weird at all.
In Epic v Apple, everybody is losing at the game of defining games
Is Roblox a game or not?
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Epic v. Apple the trial for you!
What is the difference between an “app” and a “game?” This sounds like a stoner question but instead occupied a fair amount of the morning in Epic v. Apple. Roblox, explained Apple’s marketing manager Trystan Kosmynka, was an app. See, games have a beginning, an end, and challenges. “There’s experiences within Roblox that we did not look at as a game,” Kosmynka said. We did establish that Minecraft is a game, though, so that’s nice for Microsoft.
What you need to know
New internal documents reveal Apple made a huge bid to improve its App Review process in 2015.
Project Columbus was designed to tackle the manual and slow process of reviewing apps, to make it more automated and efficient.
Internal documents reveal that Apple understood inconsistent and protracted reviews created a great deal of anxiety and ill will between Apple and developers .
New internal documents filed as part of the Epic Games vs Apple trial have revealed Apple made a huge push in 2015 to improve its app review process for the App Store dubbed project Columbus .
Apple s Trystan Kosmynka was asked about Columbus during day five of the trial, describing it as a move to heavily invest in App Review automation and efficiency.
The first week of the Apple vs Epic Games trial wraps up today.
A new report from Bloomberg cites an Apple representative stating Epic has wasted time in court discussing irrelevant issues.
It also states that Epic has called witnesses that have been helpful to Apple s story .
A new report from Bloomberg seems to indicate that Apple thinks it has come out on top of the first week of the Apple vs Epic Games trial.
This week, it seems that Epic hasn t been able to prove that the obligatory use of Apple s payment system constitutes an abuse of monopolistic power, and it hasn t shown that Apple is engaging in serious anti-competitive behavior. The testimonies from Epic s side don t appear to have moved the needle.
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Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game
Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple claims Epic is trying to break the iOS platform’s vaunted safety and security for its own gain. Both parties have laid out how they expect to win their respective cases, and this week, they’ve provided near-final lists of the people they expect to call for testimony.
Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th. The lists don’t guarantee every witness will be called, and crucially, they don’t tell us