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Apple boss testifies in Epic legal row

Epic, maker of the hit video game Fortnite, claims Apple's tight control over iPhone apps hurts competition.

Epic Games is suing Apple over what it claims is the monopolistic way it runs its App store; we hear from Adi Robertson, tech reporter at the Verge. And a lot of young people have started to invest during the pandemic, often through trading apps to invest their money as Marketplace's Kai Rysdall has been finding out. Also in the programme, as supplies of petrol and jet fuel have been reaching major cities on America's east coast with the Colonial Pipeline brought back on-stream following a ransomware attack earlier in the month, we consider the politics of pipelines; we speak to Dr Ellen Wald, senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. And as the Eurovision Song Contest gears up for this year's competition in front of a live audience in Rotterdam on Saturday, project director Alice Vlaanderen explains how this year's event will differ from previous incarnations. Plus, we're joined throughout the programme by Rebecca Archer, freelance journalist with the ABC Brisbane.

(Photo: Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies via video-conference during a US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing. Credit: Reuters)

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  • Sat 22 May 2021 00:06GMT

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