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REUTERS: Appl CEO Tim Cook, software chief Craig Federighi and other executives named in a tentative list of witnesses in the software giant’s case against Epic Games, showed a court document dated March 19.
App Store Vice President Matt Fischer and Apple partner Phil Schiller were also named on the list sent to the Oakland Division of the Northern District of California of the U.S. District Court, a copy of the which was seen by Reuters.
The iPhone maker has been at odds with Epic Games, the creator of the popular game Fortnite, which last year tried to avoid a 30 percent fee that Apple charges developers on the App Store by launching its own payment system on the App Store. app. The move led Apple to ban Fortnite from its store.
In a separate court filing, Epic Games listed its founder and CEO Tim Sweeney among its own witnesses in the case.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters, but told Bloomberg in a statement that it was “confident that the case will show that Epic willfully breached its agreement solely to increase its revenue.”
A direct message to Epic Games on one of their official Twitter identifiers did not get an immediate response.
