Less than a month from the Apple v. Trial Epic, Facebook is getting involved. According to a letter filed in court, Apple has requested some documents from Facebook, but Facebook does not want to provide them.
Since Facebook’s VP of games, Vivek Sharma, is set to testify on behalf of Epic, Apple is asking for more than 17,000 Sharma-related documents that the company considers relevant to the case, which Facebook responded to as a “request” unjustified, unjust and extemporaneous to redo the discovery of facts. ”
As reported by MacRumors, Facebook has already provided Apple with more than 1,600 documents, including 200 involving Sharma. Zuckerberg’s company said:
If Apple believed that production was insufficient in any way, it had every opportunity to move to oblige within 7 days after the discovery was closed, as required by the Court’s Rules. Apple chose not to do so, making this move inopportune. Instead, claiming surprise at Epic de Sharma’s revelation as a trial witness – although Epic’s complaint cited him by name – Apple now requires Facebook to review and produce a huge number of additional documents.
It is still unclear what the Apple Vs. case will look like. Epic, but last week the Fortnite maker filed a UK antitrust lawsuit against Apple, despite losing a lawsuit in the country over the same issue.
In addition to Sharma, Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and other Apple executives are expected to testify in the case of Epic Games next month. In a statement shared with 9to5Mac, Apple said its “senior executives are eager” to share the “positive impact that the App Store has had on innovation”.
Our senior executives hope to share with the court the very positive impact that the App Store has had on innovation, economies around the world and the customer experience over the past 12 years. We are confident that the case will prove that Epic purposely violated its agreement just to increase its revenue, which resulted in its removal from the App Store. In doing so, Epic circumvented the App Store’s security features in a way that would lead to reduced competition and put consumer privacy and data security at tremendous risk.
You can read the letter sent to the court by Apple here.
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