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Today marked the kickoff of the third week of the Epic Games v. Apple trial, and this week is notable because Epic has finished with its witnesses and we’re now transitioning to Apple witnesses, including notable Apple executives.
Apple Fellow and former marketing chief Phil Schiller, who is in charge of the App Store, took the stand today. Schiller will testify for up to nine hours, and will see the most questioning out of all of Apple’s witnesses.
Schiller’s hours of commentary will see him explaining just how the App Store works, the value of the App Store and Apple’s SDKs, and why it’s important that the judge side with Apple to maintain security and privacy for customers.
Questioning today started with the history of the iPhone, where Schiller made sure to say that security and privacy were the “most important” considerations when developing the iPhone. “This new computing device in your pocket means it’s capable of new things,” he said. “It’s going to store information around our lives that we aren’t used to having in our pocket.”
Schiller covered how the App Store was set up from the beginning. The iPhone’s software is “part of the product” that Apple creates, which is very different from Android, which is licensed to device makers. This licensing model “reduces quality” and the “speed of innovation,” Schiller said in defense of Apple’s setup.
Early questioning covered the transition from Apple-only apps on iPhone to third-party app support, and the security and privacy risks that Apple had to contend with. After the launch of the iPhone, Apple heard from developers that they wanted to create native apps, which Apple viewed as the first “demand for quality and security” on iPhone.
Apple has always been concerned about jailbroken apps and rogue app developers creating content without documented APIs, which could lead to “unreliable, unstable devices.” He pointed out the importa
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