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Epic Games与苹果的对决是否会变成一场不匹配?
至少到目前为止，Epic一直难以证明自己的指控，即这家iPhone制造商已有13年历史的应用商店已经变成了非法垄断。
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至少到目前为止，Epic一直难以证明自己的指控，即这家iPhone制造商已有13年历史的应用商店已经变成了非法垄断。
热门游戏《堡垒之夜》(Fortnite)的开发商Epic认为，苹果一直在欺骗应用程序开发商，对应用程序内交易收取15%至30%不等的佣金，因为苹果禁止在iPhone、iPad和iPhone上使用其他选项iPod．去年8月，当Epic试图在《堡垒之夜》中使用另一种支付系统来逃避佣金时，苹果将其赶出了应用商店，以进行法律摊牌，迫使其降低费用。
在加州奥克兰市一家法庭举行的庭审的第一周，总部位于北卡罗来纳州卡里的Epic公司有时似乎在为苹果公司辩护。
例如，Epic公司首席执行官蒂姆•斯威尼(Tim Sweeney)在证人席上的两天里曾一度承认，他个人使用的是iPhone，而不是谷歌手机上运行的智能手机安卓软件因为他认为苹果提供了更好的安全和隐私控制。
Sweeney还承认苹果对iPhone的软件进行了修改，让《堡垒之夜》的玩家可以在一个用手机，另一个用视频游戏机的情况下相互竞争。所谓的“跨平台”玩法的扩展推动《堡垒之夜》的用户增长至4亿以上。
其他内部文件显示，Epic的高管对苹果在应用商店中支持《堡垒之夜》表示了极大的感谢。
相比之下，苹果的应用商店在2008年——也就是第一部iPhone问世的第二年——开业后不久就迅速获得了丰厚的利润，当时它只有500个应用程序。Epic一再指出，苹果已故联合创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)最初并不认为应用商店会成为一个利润中心，但根据苹果的一份幻灯片演示，在2010年应用商店累积了21亿美元的账单后，他显然改变了主意。
这次审判还没有透露苹果应用商店的盈利情况。苹果没有披露该商店的财务业绩，但它是该公司稳步增长的服务部门的重要组成部分。仅去年一年，该部门的收入就达到570亿美元。这些服务的成功加上iPhone的持续流行是苹果目前拥有2.2万亿美元市值的关键原因，这比任何其他美国公司都要多。相比之下，私人持股的Epic的估值接近300亿美元。
预计苹果应用商店的更多财务细节将在庭审的第二周公布。当Epic的专家之一、伯克利研究集团(Berkeley Research Group)的内德•巴恩斯(Ned Barnes)出庭讨论他对苹果应用商店利润的分析时，或许最能说明问题的时刻将到来。
苹果公司曾试图说服美国地区法官Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers在巴恩斯作证期间关闭法庭，但未能成功，因为他的财务分析“过度混淆”投资者，并导致其股价大幅波动。
但即使应用商店的利润比任何人都要高，这也不一定能帮助Epic证明其对苹果垄断损害竞争的指控。
“成功本身并不违反反垄断法，”波士顿学院(Boston College)法学教授丹尼尔·莱昂斯(Daniel Lyons)说。“你的价格远高于成本的论点可能对外行观众很有吸引力，但在法律上是站不住脚的。”
莱昂斯和其他专家表示，对于所有这些戏剧性事件，法官在这场非陪审团审判中最终做出的决定将归结为市场定义。Epic认为，iPhone本身已经成为一个市场，而苹果则认为，它还应该包括其他设备，包括视频游戏主机微软微软的Xbox和索尼的PlayStation也对游戏交易收取30%的佣金。
乔治城大学商业与公共政策中心项目主管拉里·唐斯(Larry Downes)说:“如果我是一个赌徒，我肯定会说，根据现有的判例法，苹果的理由更充分。”“你必须站在消费者的立场上，这是法官真正要做的。如果它没有伤害消费者，那么这只是两家公司之间的合同纠纷，其中一家试图通过诉讼来重新谈判条款。”
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<\/figure>SAN RAMON: If Epic Games<\/a> hopes to dismantle the fortress surrounding Apple<\/a>'s iPhone<\/a> and its app<\/a> store, the video game maker probably will need to roll out some heavier artillery heading into the second week of a trial threatening Apple's $2 trillion empire.So far, at least, Epic has been having trouble proving its allegations that the iPhone maker's 13-year-old app store has turned into an illegal monopoly.
Epic, the maker of the popular Fortnite game, contends Apple has been gouging app makers by charging commissions ranging from 15% to 30% for in-app transactions because it forbids other options on its iPhone, iPad and iPod<\/a>. When Epic tried to evade the commissions with an alternative payment system in Fortnite last August, Apple ousted it from the app store to set up a legal showdown that could force it to lower its fees.
<\/div><\/div>Apple contends the commissions are a reasonable toll paid by a minority of the 1.8 million apps in its store to help cover the more than $100 billion it has invested in mobile software, The Cupertino, California, company also maintains its ironclad control over apps allowed on its mobile devices helps protect its customers' security and privacy.
At times, it seemed like Cary, North Carolina-based Epic was helping make Apple's case as much as its own during the the first week of the trial being held in an Oakland, California, courtroom.
For instance, at one point during his two days on the witness stand, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney acknowledged he personally used an iPhone instead of smartphones running on Google's Android software<\/a> because he thought Apple offered better security and privacy controls.
Sweeney also acknowledged Apple made changes to iPhone's software to help make it possible for Fortnite players to compete against each other while one was on a phone and the other was on a video game console. The expansion of so-called \"cross-platform\" play helped propel Fortnite's growth to more than 400 million users.
Other internal documents showed Epic's executives profusely thanking Apple for the support Fortnite was getting in the app store.
At times, it seemed like Cary, North Carolina-based Epic was helping make Apple's case as much as its own during the the first week of the trial being held in an Oakland, California, courtroom.
For instance, at one point during his two days on the witness stand, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney acknowledged he personally used an iPhone instead of smartphones running on Google's Android software<\/a> because he thought Apple offered better security and privacy controls.
Sweeney also acknowledged Apple made changes to iPhone's software to help make it possible for Fortnite players to compete against each other while one was on a phone and the other was on a video game console. The expansion of so-called \"cross-platform\" play helped propel Fortnite's growth to more than 400 million users.
Other internal documents showed Epic's executives profusely thanking Apple for the support Fortnite was getting in the app store.
<\/div><\/div>Other evidence raised questions about whether Epic's efforts to create a competing app store that imposes a commission of only 12% will pay off. The store is expected to post a profit ranging from $15 million to $36 million by 2024, but it will still have run up cumulative losses $654 million to $854 million, according to Epic's internal projections presented at the trial.
Apple's store, by contrast, quickly became highly profitable shortly after it opened with just 500 apps in 2008 - a year after the debut of the first iPhone. Epic has repeatedly pointed to evidence that Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs initially didn't expect the app store to be a profit center, but then apparently changed his mind after it accumulated $2.1 billion in billings during 2010, according to an Apple slide presentation.
The trial hasn't yet revealed just how profitable Apple's app store has become. Apple doesn't disclose the store's financial results, but it is an important part of the company's steadily growing services division, which generated $57 billion in revenue last year alone. The success of those services coupled with the iPhone's ongoing popularity is a key reason why Apple currently boasts a market value of $2.2 trillion - more than any other U.S. company. In contrast, privately held Epic is valued at nearly $30 billion.
More financial details about Apple's app store are expected to be presented during the trial's second week. Perhaps the most revealing moments may come when one of Epic's experts, Ned Barnes of the Berkeley Research Group, takes the stand to discuss his analysis of the app store's profits.
Apple unsuccessfully tried to convince U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to close the courtroom during Barnes' testimony because his financial analysis \"unduly confuse\" investors and cause wild swings in its stock.
But even if the app store's profits are higher than anyone fathomed, that won't necessarily help Epic prove its allegations that Apple is running a monopoly that hurts competition.
\"Being successful is not an antitrust violation in and of itself,\" said Daniel Lyons, a Boston College law professor. \"The argument that your prices are much higher than your costs may play well to a lay audience, but it doesn't hold up legally.\"
For all the drama, Lyons and other experts say the decision that will ultimately be made by the judge during this non-jury trial will boil down to market definitions. Epic contends the iPhone has become a market by itself, while Apple argues it should also include other devices, including video game consoles such as Microsoft<\/a>'s Xbox and Sony's PlayStation that also charge 30% commissions on gaming transactions.
\"If I were a betting man, I would certainly say Apple has the stronger case under existing case law,\" said Larry Downes, project director of Georgetown University's Center for Business and Public Policy. \"You have to put yourself in the standpoint of the consumer, and that's what the judge really has to do. If it's not harming consumers, then this is just a contract dispute between two companies, with one of them trying to use litigation to renegotiate the terms.\"
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Apple's store, by contrast, quickly became highly profitable shortly after it opened with just 500 apps in 2008 - a year after the debut of the first iPhone. Epic has repeatedly pointed to evidence that Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs initially didn't expect the app store to be a profit center, but then apparently changed his mind after it accumulated $2.1 billion in billings during 2010, according to an Apple slide presentation.
The trial hasn't yet revealed just how profitable Apple's app store has become. Apple doesn't disclose the store's financial results, but it is an important part of the company's steadily growing services division, which generated $57 billion in revenue last year alone. The success of those services coupled with the iPhone's ongoing popularity is a key reason why Apple currently boasts a market value of $2.2 trillion - more than any other U.S. company. In contrast, privately held Epic is valued at nearly $30 billion.
More financial details about Apple's app store are expected to be presented during the trial's second week. Perhaps the most revealing moments may come when one of Epic's experts, Ned Barnes of the Berkeley Research Group, takes the stand to discuss his analysis of the app store's profits.
Apple unsuccessfully tried to convince U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to close the courtroom during Barnes' testimony because his financial analysis \"unduly confuse\" investors and cause wild swings in its stock.
But even if the app store's profits are higher than anyone fathomed, that won't necessarily help Epic prove its allegations that Apple is running a monopoly that hurts competition.
\"Being successful is not an antitrust violation in and of itself,\" said Daniel Lyons, a Boston College law professor. \"The argument that your prices are much higher than your costs may play well to a lay audience, but it doesn't hold up legally.\"
For all the drama, Lyons and other experts say the decision that will ultimately be made by the judge during this non-jury trial will boil down to market definitions. Epic contends the iPhone has become a market by itself, while Apple argues it should also include other devices, including video game consoles such as Microsoft<\/a>'s Xbox and Sony's PlayStation that also charge 30% commissions on gaming transactions.
\"If I were a betting man, I would certainly say Apple has the stronger case under existing case law,\" said Larry Downes, project director of Georgetown University's Center for Business and Public Policy. \"You have to put yourself in the standpoint of the consumer, and that's what the judge really has to do. If it's not harming consumers, then this is just a contract dispute between two companies, with one of them trying to use litigation to renegotiate the terms.\"
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