The testimony became fiery and intense at times, particularly in the closing arguments today, as each side's legal team made one final push to convince the judge to see things their way.Įpic Games is alleging that Apple's restrictions around its App Store constitute a monopoly, and is seeking to force the company to change its policies toward everyone-not just Epic itself. The court case, which began on May 3, included testimony from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, along with other executives from each company. So it may take me a while to do that,' she said. 'We're taking all of that evidence, all of that testimony, all of those documents, and putting it together in a way that seems to make sense in the context of the law. It's up to the jury, or in this case, the judge herself, to determine how those pieces fit together, and that will be her task until she's ready to make a decision. Now that arguments and testimony are, all the information to render a judgement is out in the open and all that's left is for Gonzalez to make a decision based on the testimony she heard and documents she saw. Having more pieces might have helped illuminate the puzzle, and some pieces that did get put in the box might seem irrelevant, Gonzalez said. At the end of the trial, there are no more pieces. As the case progressed, the box continued to fill up with puzzle pieces that could help illuminate the result-or, in this analogy-what the subject of the puzzle was. The lawyers on each side will tell you what they think the evidence shows, but they haven't proven anything. Speaking to the media and other people listening in on the proceedings, Gonzalez said people should think of the case like a puzzle box. 'You will receive my decision in writing.' And now we wait A Puzzle Box Case 'There is quite a bit of work still to do,' she said. She added that her staff informed her recently that there are 4,500 pages of testimony from the case that she'll need to go through before making a judgement. But we do have thousands and thousands of pages to review,' Gonzalez said to the lawyers for Apple and Epic as part of the legal proceeding. 'I am not promising to have this by August 13 but I am going to try-as I said to you-I want to try to get you this while the memories of the testimony is fresh, and while your arguments are fresh. She joked that she planned to have a judgment by August 13, which was the day in 2020 when Epic deployed a the hotfix in Fortnite for iOS that circumvented Apple's payment system, precipitating this entire event. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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