“How did you get from that to being willing to do a business deal with the fake open platform people?”

That’s Judge James Donato to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, asking him whether he thinks Google is an open platform today, when he called it a “fake open platform” in the past and had publicly given up on that ever changing.
Sweeney doesn’t have a great answer. Also, I missed copying down what he did said because I was so distracted by what the courtroom revealed right afterwards… one moment on that.

That’s Judge James Donato to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, asking him whether he thinks Google is an open platform today, when he called it a “fake open platform” in the past and had publicly given up on that ever changing.
Sweeney doesn’t have a great answe… [582 chars]

Source: The Verge | Published: 2026-01-22T20:56:07Z

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