The Wild West: The Tipline for 29 September 2020

“As we frequently are in the Northern District of California, we’re in a new world,” said Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers yesterday when discussing Apple’s closed iOS ecosystem – and the potential competition issues it may have caused. “They don’t call us the Wild West for nothing.” The California federal judge is presiding over Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple, which appears likely to go to trial next July. New frontiers in antitrust apparently await us.