Less than a month away from the Apple vs. Epic trial gets Facebook involved. According to a letter filed in court, Apple has requested documents from Facebook, but Facebook does not want to provide them.
As Facebook’s VP of games Vivek Sharma will testify on behalf of Epic, Apple is requesting more than 17,000 documents related to Sharma that the company finds relevant to the case, to which Facebook responded as an “untimely, unfair and unjustified request to rediscover the fact. ”
As reported by MacRumors, Facebook has already provided more than 1,600 documents to Apple, including 200 involving Sharma. Zuckerberg’s company said:
If Apple considered the production to be inadequate in any way, he had every opportunity to enforce it within 7 days of the discovery period, as required by court rules. Apple chose not to do so, which made this motion untimely. Instead of claiming surprise by Epic’s announcement of Mr. Sharma as a trial witness – although Epic’s complaint quoted him by name – Apple is now demanding that Facebook review and deliver a huge number of additional documents.
It is still unclear how the case against Apple and Epic will go, but last week the Fortnite manufacturer filed a British antitrust complaint against Apple, although it lost a court case in the country on the same issue.
Aside from Sharma, Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and other Apple executives will testify in the Epic Games case next month. In a statement shared with 9to5MacApple said it was “looking for senior executives” to share the “positive impact the App Store has had on innovation”.
Our senior executives look forward to sharing with the court the very positive impact the App Store has had on innovation, economies around the world and the customer experience over the past twelve years. We are confident that the case will prove that Epic deliberately violated its agreement to only increase its revenue, which resulted in them being removed from the App Store. In doing so, Epic circumvented the security features of the App Store in a way that would lead to reduced competition and pose a huge risk to consumers’ privacy and data security.
You can read the letter filled out by Apple in court here.
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