NEW WASHINGTON - The wind was not cooperating.
As representatives from Apex Clean Energy, Inc., tried to set up displays and a video screen in preparation for a public meeting about the Honey Creek Wind Farm projecton Wednesday evening in the picnic shelter behind the New Washington American Legion Hall, the wind kept blowing everything over.
Their problem was met with more laughter than frustration. Don t you hate it when it s too windy to talk about wind? asked Ben Yazman, development manager, laughing.
The breeze had died down by the time 14 members of the public, county commissioners Tim Ley and Mike Schmid,t and one police officer gathered to listen to Yazman s presentation on the project.
See eight sketches from the pivotal Epic v. Apple trial, including portraits of Apple CEO Tim Cook, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, and Apple executives Craig Federighi and Phil Schiller.
By Tim Higgins and Sarah E. Needleman The billionaire behind one of the most successful videogames of all time came to view Apple Inc. as an existential threat to his dream of the future. So Tim Sweeney decided to fight. He gave his dispute with the world s biggest company a code name: Project Liberty. The clash was a bold gambit from a man who built an empire around Fortnite, the online multiplayer shooter game filled with cartoonish characters that became a phenomenon beloved by teenagers around the world. The ambition of Epic Games Inc. s chief executive was that Fortnite s legions of devoted young fans could turn it into a thriving social network, and help realize his vision of the metaverse, a shared virtual world where people might one day live, work and hang out.
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In one of the final steps before the Apple versus Epic dispute enters trial in May, both Apple and the Fortnite developer has filed a Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law document with the Northern District of California. Epic s 365-page submission sets out the company s case against Apple regarding the App Store.
Epic s document, released publicly in a lightly redacted form, is divided into almost a dozen sections, each of which concentrates on a different element of the dispute. However, much of these sections recount the history of the dispute, and the specific arguments boil down to two elements.
Court documents filed by Epic Games claim that the company has been damaged by Apple s control over the App Store despite its own contractual violation, and calls out arbitrary review decisions.
In one of the final steps before the Apple versus Epic dispute enters trial in May, both Apple and the Fortnite developer has filed a Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law document with the Northern District of California. Epic s 365-page submission sets out the company s case against Apple regarding the App Store.
Epic s document, released publicly in a lightly redacted form, is divided into almost a dozen sections, each of which concentrates on a different element of the dispute. However, much of these sections recount the history of the dispute, and the specific arguments boil down to two elements.