Cook should be slapped for "carefully tended ignorance"
 

Apple CEO apparently does not know what is going on

Apple CEO Tim Cook turn in the stand in the Epic antitrust battle appears to have been a loud-sounding yawn with what observers called a mild, carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered.

The Tame Apple Press claimed that the approach was brilliant and game-changing because while it was as dull as hell it defanged "the dangerous if the somewhat dubious, argument that Apple's App Store amounts to a monopoly".

However, what actually happened was that Cook claimed no knowledge of things he probably should.

It started when he didn't know about Apple's R&D numbers — $15-20 billion annually for the last three years. He said that Apple couldn't estimate how much of that money was directed toward the App Store because "we don't allocate like that".

So Apple can't tell you how much is spent on App store research.

Now, this is legally clever, if Apple can't say a number Epic can't use it against them. If the number was big, Apple is protecting their golden goose (enforcing market power). If it's small, they're just collecting the eggs (collecting rent via market power).

So Cook plays dumb, and consequently, Epic's argument looks like speculation.

https://fudzilla.com/news/52915-cook...nded-ignorance