Tim Cook to be Apple's star witness at Fortnite trial
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Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the witness stand Friday in a high-stakes courtroom battle that could change the iPhone and App Store forever.
Cook's testimony is expected to start at 8 a.m. Pacific Time. The U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, doesn't allow cases to be televised, or for audio to be rebroadcast, but the testimony will be available live via a phone line, and the details are here. The trial revolves around an antitrust lawsuit filed last year by Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite. At stake are the lucrative commissions the iPhone maker has been raking in from its mobile app store and players' access to the popular shootout game.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.