Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing
Tim Cook&#x27;s line of argument seemed a bit weird to me. On one hand he&#x27;s saying that he doesn&#x27;t know if Apple&#x27;s customers would be able to distinguish between Apple&#x27;s good and holy curated store and Epic&#x27;s filthy shitheap of porn and blackjack, but he&#x27;s also saying that Apple&#x27;s customers definitely want Apple&#x27;s App Store as-is.<p>&gt;<i>Lawyer says, “if people really value Apple’s curation and Apple’s App Store, even if there are multiple stores, people could still go shop at Apple,” right?</i><p>&gt;<i>“It seems like a decision that they shouldn’t have to make,” Cook says.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thedextriarchy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1395796704381784069" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thedextriarchy&#x2F;status&#x2F;139579670438178406...</a><p>&gt;<i>Will people not be able to distinguish between an official and unofficial store?</i><p>&gt;<i>“They’ve never had to do it before. They’ve bought into something that’s an ecosystem that just works.”</i><p>&gt;<i>So you don’t know if people can tell the difference?</i><p>&gt;<i>“I’m saying I don’t know,” Cook says.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thedextriarchy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1395797118590365696" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thedextriarchy&#x2F;status&#x2F;139579711859036569...</a><p>&gt;<i>Apple can’t really know that it runs a better app store than anyone else, when it’s never let anyone try, right?</i><p>&gt;<i>“It’s an experiment I didn’t want to run,” Cook says. Customers “uniformly” want it to “stay like it is.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thedextriarchy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1395797410765496320" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;thedextriarchy&#x2F;status&#x2F;139579741076549632...</a>