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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`Before The Honorable YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS, Judge
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`EPIC GAMES, INC.,
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`APPLE, INC., ) Oakland, California
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`APPLE, INC.,
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`EPIC GAMES, Inc.,
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`REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS
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`APPEARANCES:
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`For Plaintiff: CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE, LLP
` 825 Eighth Avenue
` New York, New York 10019
` BY: KATHERINE B. FORREST, ESQUIRE
` GARY A. BORNSTEIN, ESQUIRE
`YONATAN EVEN, ESQUIRE
`(Appearances continued.)
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`Reported By: Diane E. Skillman, CSR 4909, RPR, FCRR
` Pamela Batalo-Hebel, CSR 3593, RMR, FCRR
` Raynee Mercado, CSR 8258 RMR, CRR, FCRR
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`TRANSCRIPT PRODUCED BY COMPUTER-AIDED TRANSCRIPTION
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`CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE, LLP
`For Plaintiff:
` 825 Eighth Avenue
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` BY: LAUREN A. MOSKOWITZ, ESQUIRE
`JUSTIN C. CLARKE, ESQUIRE
`W. WES EARNHARDT, ESQUIRE
`BRENDAN BLAKE, ESQUIRE
`JIN NIU, ESQUIRE
`BRENT BYARS, ESQUIRE
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`For Defendant: GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER
` 333 South Grand Avenue
` Los Angeles, California 90071
` BY: RICHARD J. DOREN, ESQUIRE
`DAN SWANSON, ESQUIRE
`CYNTHIA RICHMAN, ESQUIRE
`RACHEL BRASS, ESQUIRE
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`GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER, LLP
`2001 Ross Avenue, Suite 1100
`Dallas, Texas 75201
` BY: VERONICA S. MOYE, ESQUIRE
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`PAUL WEISS RIFKIND
`WHARTON & GARRISON LLP
`2001 K STREET, NW
`Washington, DC 20006
` BY: KAREN DUNN, ESQUIRE
`JESSICA E. PHILLIPS, ESQUIRE
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`For Defendant:
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`PAUL WEISS RIFKIND
`WHARTON & GARRISON LLP
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`San Francisco, California 94117
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`THE CLERK: Calling Civil Action 20-5640, Epic Games,
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`Inc., vs. Apple, Inc.
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`Counsel, please state your appearances.
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`MS. FORREST: Good morning, Your Honor. Katherine
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`Forrest for Epic.
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`THE COURT: Good morning, Ms. Forrest.
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`MR. BORNSTEIN: Good morning. Gary Bornstein for
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`Epic.
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`THE COURT: Mr. Bornstein, welcome back.
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`MR. EVEN: Good morning. Yonatan Even for Epic.
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`THE COURT: Good morning.
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`MS. MOSKOWITZ: Good morning, Your Honor. Lauren
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`Moskowitz for Epic.
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`THE COURT: Okay. Good morning.
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`MR. KARIN: Good morning. John Karin for Epic.
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`THE COURT: John Karin. Welcome to the courtroom.
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`First time, right?
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`Mr. Sweeney, good morning.
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`MR. SWEENEY: Good morning, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Mr. Rudd, good morning.
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`MR. RUDD: Good morning.
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`THE COURT: Okay. On the Apple side.
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`Mr. --
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`MS. MOYÉ: Good morning, Your Honor. Veronica Moyé
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`THE COURT: Good morning, Ms. Moyé.
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`MS. YANG: Good morning, Your Honor. Betty Yang for
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`Apple.
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`THE COURT: Ms. Yang, welcome back.
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`MR. DOREN: Good morning, Your Honor. Richard Doren
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`THE COURT: Okay. Good morning to each of you.
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`All right.
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`Mr. Spalding.
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`MR. SPALDING: Good morning. Your Honor.
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`THE COURT:
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`I see Ms. Dunn back there. Good morning.
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`Who else do we have in the back?
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`MS. MOYÉ: Your Honor, we have our witness, Mr. Tim
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`THE COURT: Mr. Cook, good morning.
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`MS. MOYÉ: We have Ms. Dunn, Karen Dunn; we have Kyle
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`THE COURT: Okay. Good morning to each of you.
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`So from the press, my notes show that we have Michael
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`MR. ACTON: Good morning, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Good morning, Sir.
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`And then Dorothy Atkins from Law 360?
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`MS. ATKINS: Good morning.
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`THE COURT: Good morning.
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`Betsy Manifold is back for the plaintiffs' counsel.
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`MS. MANIFOLD: Good morning, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Good morning.
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`All right. Then I see some additional folks.
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`MS. FORREST: Yes. Your Honor, I can -- since they
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`We have Brent Byars, who you remember from yesterday; and
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`Lauren Kloss, our beachmaster; and then Justin Clarke, one of
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`THE COURT: Okay. Well, we are going a little bit
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`MS. MOYÉ: Thank you, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Good morning, Ms. Behringer.
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`MS. BEHRINGER: Good morning, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: That is our courtroom artist, who is
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`Okay. A few things to do before we get started. I have
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`Ms. Forrest, do you have a list of things to address?
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`MS. FORREST:
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`The first is just on the time sheet that we were given
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`THE COURT: Okay.
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`MS. FORREST: And we're prepared --
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`THE COURT: Agreed?
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`MR. DOREN: Yes, Your Honor.
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`MS. FORREST: And we're prepared to hand up, then,
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`THE COURT: Great. I'm glad I did not take it
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`MS. FORREST: All right. The next is to then confirm
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`We have two, Athey and Cragg, where we are waiting for the
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`MR. DOREN: And, Your Honor, obviously, we're fine
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`The only administrative matter is that the versions of our
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`THE COURT: Okay. I believe that that was part of
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`MS. FORREST: All right. I have three other just
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`On logistics, we've got the findings of fact that we've
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`THE COURT: Yes.
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`MS. FORREST: -- periodically.
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`We were wondering whether or not we could have a couple of
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`THE COURT: Yeah, I think that -- Mr. Doren?
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`MR. DOREN: Sure. Yes, Your Honor. In light of the
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`THE COURT:
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`At this point, having them on the 28th, which I think is a
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`MS. FORREST: Very much appreciated, Your Honor.
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`Actually, we will --
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`THE COURT: Noon our time, which is 3:00 p.m. East
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`MS. FORREST: Very good.
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`THE COURT: Well, I wanted to do that today.
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`MS. FORREST: Okay. All right.
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`THE COURT:
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`MS. FORREST: The last logistic before the request is
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`MR. DOREN: So long as they're fixing name spellings
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`THE COURT: Okay. And I'm not going to ask the court
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`MS. FORREST: Yes.
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`The cover note to the agenda asked if the Court had any
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`THE COURT: Yes. It is an ambitious -- it's an
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`THE COURT: No, I remember it.
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`And the -- I think remedies would be interesting to hear
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`It is, under the law, the exception, not the rule. It is
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`Issues of substitutes I think are -- are interesting and
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`The lack of competition on the 30 percent is something
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`moves, so, you know, I don't know that you want to spend a lot
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`This is a dynamic market. Things are changing rapidly. I
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`have a snapshot. We are at a point in time in a moving
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`MR. DOREN: Thank you, Your Honor.
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`MS. FORREST: All right. Thank you, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Mr. Doren, anything else from you?
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`MR. DOREN: Nothing further, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: The one thing I wanted to talk about --
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`MS. FORREST: Very well.
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`MR. DOREN: Thank you.
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`THE COURT: All right. It is 8:15. Apparently the
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`It's now back on.
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`THE COURT:
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`Mr. Cook, come on up, please.
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`MS. MOYÉ: Thank you, Your Honor. Apple calls
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`Mr. Tim Cook.
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`THE CLERK:
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`I will have you remain standing. I will
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`TIMOTHY COOK,
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`called as a witness for the Defendant, having been duly sworn,
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`testified as follows:
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`THE WITNESS:
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`THE CLERK: Please be seated.
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`THE WITNESS: Thank you.
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`THE CLERK: And then would you just be sure that mic
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`THE WITNESS: Timothy Donald Cook, C-O-O-K.
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`THE COURT: Okay, Mr. Cook, we can't hear you yet.
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`THE CLERK: Let me turn on your mic.
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`Okay. Now your mic is on. Sorry.
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`THE COURT: Go ahead.
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`THE WITNESS: Timothy Donald Cook, C-O-O-K.
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`THE COURT: Good morning, sir.
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`THE CLERK: Yes, they said it's working.
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`THE COURT: All right. Ms. Moyé, you may proceed.
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`MS. MOYÉ: Thank you, Your Honor.
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`DIRECT EXAMINATION
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`BY MS. MOYÉ:
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`Q. Good morning, Mr. Cook.
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`A. Good morning.
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`Q. Can I bring you some water? You may need some water
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`during your testimony.
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`Your Honor, can I approach the witness?
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`THE COURT: You may.
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`THE WITNESS: Thank you.
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`BY MS. MOYÉ:
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`Q. Mr. Cook, what is your current role at Apple?
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`A. Chief executive officer.
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`And what are your responsibilities as chief executive
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`officer?
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`The overall direction and strategy of the company.
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`Q. How long have you worked at Apple?
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`A.
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`Since 1998.
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`And under what circumstances did you come to work at
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`Apple?
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`I was working at Compaq Computer at the time, and I got a
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`And are you referring to Mr. Steve Jobs?
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`Yes, of course.
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`Q. What other positions have you held at Apple, Mr. Cook?
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`Senior vice-president of worldwide operations, executive
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`vice-president of sales and operations, and the chief
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`Q.
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`And when did you become CEO?
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`In 2011.
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`Q. What kind of oversight do you have over the App Store?
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`It's limited, obviously. In a review capacity is the way
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`Q. Do you have a role with respect to strategic direction for
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`the App Store?
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`I have a role in strategic direction of the company and so
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`to some degree, but more on a review basis.
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`Q. Can you describe for us, Mr. Cook, your education and
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`employment history?
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`Sure. Education is I have a Bachelor of Science in
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`industrial engineering from Auburn University and a Master of
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`Business Administration from Duke University.
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`My career started at IBM. I worked there for about a
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`Compaq for a very short period of time before joining Apple.
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`Q. Robertsdale, you said?
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`A. Robertsdale.
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`Q. Mr. Cook, how would you describe Apple's mission?
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`It's to make the best products in the world that really
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`enrich people's lives.
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`Q.
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`And what do you do to try and meet that mission?
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`A. We do a number of things. We invest like crazy in R&D.
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`We've invested a hundred billion dollars since -- since the
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`start of the iPhone development, and -- and that number is
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`just accelerated. In fact, we've invested 50 billion in the
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`last three years.
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`In addition to that, we have a maniacal focus on the user,
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`in doing the right thing by the customer. We integrate
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`hardware, software, and services, and we think that we do that
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`better than anyone else.
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`We take a lot of the complexity of technology away from
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`the user and make things simple, not complex.
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`Q.
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`Thank you, sir.
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`And what are the key commitments that Apple makes to its
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`customers?
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`A. Well, privacy, from our point of view, is, you know, one
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`of the most important issues of the century, and safety and
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`security are the foundation that privacy is built upon.
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`technology has the ability to sort of vacuum up all kinds of
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`data from people, and we -- we like to provide people tools
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`Q. How does Apple go about ensuring it meets its safety,
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`Lots of investment, a ton of R&D investment. Obviously we
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`build it in from the ground up, and so it's a core part of our
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`Because there can be malicious things that occur. There
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`can be malware. You know, the list of -- parade of horribles
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`Application Tracking Transparency, where it puts the user in
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`We have a privacy nutrition label on the App Store, which
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`Transparency, was just introduced.
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`Q. When was the privacy nutrition label introduced?
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`Q. What about ITP?
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`Some applaud it and some are not happy with -- with it.
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`A. Well, we listen. You know, we don't have a tin ear, but
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`we're making decisions in the best interests of the user. And
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`sometimes there is a conflict between what the developer may
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`A. Overwhelmingly positive. The number of notes I get about
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`Q. Do you also conduct consumer surveys to get customer
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`A. We do.
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`Did Apple's safety, security, and privacy commitments
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`Q. How, sir, did the iOS system for the iPhone compare to the
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`preexisting macOS system when the iPhone was introduced?
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`A. Well, it was different, you know. The -- of course, the
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`A. No.
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`Q. Do you have any data you can provide the Court on the
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`A. Well, you can see in third-party data that if you look at
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`Hopefully, that's come out at some time across the -- the
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`A. No.
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