Welcome back to M-X's weekly podcast covering the top regulatory stories from around the world.

My name is James Panicki. I'm M-Mex's Asia-Pacific senior Editor. It's great to be with you again today.

Thank you so much for tuning in. And what a week it has been in California. The court battle between

Epic, which is the maker of the popular video game Fortnite, and tech company Apple, is still

going full throttle. As we'll hear, some high-profile witnesses have taken the

stand and some controversial issues have been ventilated, including the extent to which

smutty content is available on Apple's App Store. It's an antitrust lawsuit playing out in a US

court over Apple's decision to deny Fortnite access to its App Store, and that

in itself should offer our loyal listeners all the titillation they need.

There's also the issue of standards, however.

That is, Apple's claim that it is merely defending App Store users from inappropriate content

and scams.

But does Apple really want to keep us out of harm's way?

So much to talk about today, so let's get cracking. Amy Miller is a senior correspondent

covering privacy, data security and antitrust. Mike Acton is also a senior correspondent for

Emlex covering antitrust and big tech. Both are based in our San Francisco

Bureau and I'm happy to say that both are with me right now. Mike, let's start with you and

maybe you could give us a brief overview of what Epic has accused Apple of doing. So Epic basically says

that Apple is exploiting its control over the iPhone and all

handheld devices that work on the iOS operating system. And it's doing that by monopolizing two

after markets within the iOS ecosystem. So that would be the distribution of apps through the App Store

and the payment mechanism that's used or required by Apple

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