Apple’s ‘walled garden’ faces Epic attack in app store trial


Sweeney enters the Ronald V. Dellums building in Oakland, California, to attend his company’s federal court case against Apple, on Monday, May 3, 2021. Epic, maker of the video game Fortnite, charges that Apple has transformed its App Store into an illegal monopoly. — AP

SAN RAMON, California: Apple’s lucrative app store was alternately portrayed as a price-gouging monopoly and a hub of world-changing innovation during the preamble to a trial that may reshape the technological landscape.

The contrasting portraits were drawn on Monday as lawyers for Apple and its foe, Epic Games, outlined their cases in an Oakland, California, federal court before US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who will decide the case.

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