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Good, my name. Good Monday morning. Welcome to the tech check. I'm Carl Kintanilla with John Fort and Julia Borsden. Today it's been more than a fortnight, but we finally have a ruling on Epic versus Apple. Did Apple win the battle, but not the war?

Then Goldman's out with its best internet ideas. We're going to break down those bull and bear calls later on this hour. And John is in

Seattle this morning at Amazon headquarters ahead of his major exclusive with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

tomorrow, Julia. But we'll start with Epic Games and Apple.

We told you on Friday, a California judge ruled in favor of Apple in every charge except

one, saying that Apple wasn't unfairly monopolizing the mobile app space with its iOS or

its in-app purchasing systems.

But at the same time, ordering the company to remove its

anti-steering rules that ban developers from telling users about alternatives to Apple's in-app

payment systems. Epic Games has already filed an appeal. They were ordered to pay damages

to Apple for violating their developer agreement, while Apple's called the judgment a, quote, resounding victory.

So, John, no word yet from Apple if they plan to appeal any part of this.

But I do think now that the attention is going to shift to Capitol Hill.

We've got some bipartisan comments on Friday, you know, a lot of commentary that this is more evidence that

there needs to be legislation here to address these antitrust issues. Don't you think, John?

Well, maybe, but Julia, I can't help but think, okay, in June we had WWDC. That's like the first

of the most important Apple events where they lay out their software vision.

Tomorrow, we're going to get, we expect a new iPhone, perhaps a new Apple Watch. We get the hardware vision.

Apple's strength is in its ecosystem. It's in that vertical integration, tying the hardware, software services together. And once they do that,

they have so many different options for how they can monetize. So whatever rules I think Congress

might come up with and then they've got to socialize with their constituents, midterms are coming

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