Stefan Mileschin

It is all part of Microsoft’s cunning plan

Copying US politics, the fruity cargo cult Apple hopes to distract an antitrust hearing by claiming the whole thing has been orchestrated by Microsoft.

It is unlikely the court will believe such a conspiracy theory, and legally it makes no odds even if it were true. However, it appears that Apple is trying to reassure its legions of fanboys and members of the Tame Apple Press that it is not an evil monopolist who is selling out developers and users for a quick buck.

Apple’s answer is to dust off a rivalry between Apple and Microsoft which has not been active for a decade. While both it, and Microsoft know that they don’t compete anymore, Apple fanboys are raised on the spectre of the evil Microsoft who wants to take away their expensive toys and replace them with buggy malware.

Apple suggesting to the court that Fortnite maker was acting as a stalking horse for Microsoft in a filing asking a judge to make an adverse credibility finding against Lori Wright, an Xbox executive who testified in the trial on behalf of Epic. That would mean the judge could ignore her testimony.

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